[bc-gnso] FW: [council] Motion for WHOIS Studies Funding for FY11

Sun Apr 18 17:08:34 UTC 2010

Mike, thanks for the update on when the GNSO policy councilors will consider the funding for the WHOIS studies.

The background and existing positions of the Constituency fully support full funding of the two proposed studies and contingent funding for a third, in my view. 

Background to my comment: 
The BC positions regarding WHOIS are distributed in a few places in the website. Just in case others have some challenges finding all the relevant positions, besides the recent one that Susan developed/managed for the BC on the recent WHOIS accuracy report, I've attached a couple of others and note the very early [2004] Position Paper. .Page 6 of that Position Paper calls for more research and suggests that standards may offer solutions to the modifications to WHOIS.  

For some period of time, myself, Sarah Deutsch and David Fares served as WHOIS TF and rapporteurs for the BC.  The materials I reference are related to that period. I was also the first Chair of a WHOIS TF, which undertook the first study on WHOIS uses.  I also provided co organization assistance to some of the WHOIS workshops, including the one in Canada, and the one hosted by the GAC in Luxenbourg.  Other BC members -- Sarah, David, Susan, Steve, Philip, Mike, Zahid.... and others-- have made extensive contributions. Overall, the BC has done more work on WHOIS than any other constituency. The depth and extensive knowledge, and balance represented by the BC's views remains, in my view from long standing involvement in the issue, and a global perspective on how access to stored data sources is treated both within Europe and in other regions, a very important perspective. 

The BC has been joined with others who support accuracy and access of WHOIS data, but much of the leadership on this important issue has come from companies who are both BC members and sometimes are also engaged with associations who have a presence in the IPC. 

April 2004: Business Constituency  Position Paper: Input to the GNSO Council Task Forces on WHOIS -- April 2004

January 2007: 11.2 Statement of the Commercial and Business Users Constituency - Submission of the BC WHOIS Task Force Members -- January 15, 2007

Oct 2007:  Statement of the Commercial and Business Users Constituency, regarding WHOIS, October 2007 

[this submission included a resubmission of the January 2007 contribution]

My reference to these documents is both in my earlier role on a previous TF for the Constituency, and, as chair, to support the perspective that the BC's previous and standing positions fully support the Policy Councilors vote, and their work with others to gain other supportive votes, for the Council meeting on Thursday. 

Marilyn Cade

BC Chair

From: icann at rodenbaugh.com
To: bc-gnso at icann.org
Subject: [bc-gnso] FW: [council] Motion for WHOIS Studies Funding for FY11
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 07:00:14 -0700

Fyi that WHOIS studies will be considered at the next Council meeting this Thurs.  Subject to any objections from Members, the Councilors intend to support full funding of the two proposed studies and also contingent funding for a third.  Further info below.  Please let us know any questions.

Thanks,
Mike

Mike Rodenbaugh
RODENBAUGH LAW
tel/fax:  +1 (415) 738-8087
http://rodenbaugh.com

From: Steve DelBianco [mailto:sdelbianco at netchoice.org] 
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 7:42 AM
To: mike at rodenbaugh.com; Steve DelBianco; Zahid Jamil
Subject: Re: [council] Motion for WHOIS Studies Funding for FY11

I think this is the right approach.  Although I would recommend $300K + 20% contingency, or $360,000 total.  

On 4/16/10 11:43 PM, "Mike Rodenbaugh" <mike at rodenbaugh.com> wrote:
Steve, what do you think?

Thanks,
Mike

Mike Rodenbaugh
RODENBAUGH LAW
tel/fax:  +1 (415) 738-8087
http://rodenbaugh.com <http://rodenbaugh.com/> 

From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Gomes, Chuck
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 1:37 PM
To: GNSO Council
Subject: [council] Motion for WHOIS Studies Funding for FY11
Importance: High

<<Motion for Whois Studies Funding for FY11.doc>> 

In our Council meeting on 1 April I encouraged Councilors and their respective SGs and Constituencies to develop and propose specfic recommendations for funding of Whois Studies in the FY11 budget but no such recommendations were submitted.  Recognizing that the Draft ICANN Budget has to be posted not later than 17 May and our next Council meeting after the one on 21 April is not until 20 May, three days later, I decided that we should try to make a recommendation in our meeting on 21 April.  To facilitate that possibility I asked Liz to draft the attached motion (also pasted below).

Because of the lateness of the motion we would need to first approve an exception to the 8-day GNSO Operating Procedures Requirement for motions before we could act on this motion.  Also note that the motion has a placeholder for the amount to be budgeted for Whois Studies.  My personal opinion is that it would be good to fund at least two studies in FY11 and even better if we could fund three if they are ready to go, thereby avoiding very lengthy delays for at least two and maybe three studies.  Based on the estimates provided for two of the studies, a minimum of $300,000 would be needed and it might be wise to add a 10% buffer on to that, making it $330,000.  If we decided to budget for three studies, one of which we do not have any cost estimates for, we could bump the amount up to $500,000.

In a year of limited financial resources, we cannot guarantee how much will ultimately be put into the budget but we can should in my opinion at least make a recommendation for consideration by the community and ultimately the ICANN Board.

. 

Please discuss this motion with your SGs and Constituencies before our meeting on Wednesday so that we can act on it using whatever amount we decide at that time if possible.

Discussion on the list is encouraged and, if anyone is willing to second it without the amount inserted, that is welcome as well.  If anyone would rather see an amount inserted, we can insert one that can later be amended.

Chuck 

Motion for WHOIS Studies Funding for FY11 

Whereas: 

In October 2007, the GNSO Council concluded that a comprehensive, objective and quantifiable understanding of key factual issues regarding the gTLD WHOIS system would benefit future GNSO policy development efforts (http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions/)

Before defining the details of studies, the Council solicited suggestions from the community for specific topics of study on WHOIS. Suggestions were submitted (http://forum.icann.org/lists/WHOIS-comments-2008/ ) and ICANN staff prepared a 'Report on Public Suggestions on Further Studies of WHOIS', dated 25-Feb-2008 (http://gnso.icann.org/issues/WHOIS-privacy/WHOIS-study-suggestion-report-25feb08.pdf ).

On 5 November 2008 the GNSO Council formed a drafting team to solicit further constituency views assessing both the priority level and the feasibility of the various proposed WHOIS studies, with the goal of deciding which studies, if any, should be assessed for cost and feasibility. 

The Drafting Team determined that the six studies with the highest average priority scores should be the subject of further research to determine feasibility and obtain cost estimates. 

On 4 March 2009 the GNSO Council requested that Staff conduct research on feasibility and cost estimates for those six WHOIS studies and following that assessment the Council would decide which studies should be conducted (http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions/#200903) 

On 23 March 2010, staff provided its analysis to the GNSO Council of costs and feasibility for the first two study areas, and will continue to work on the remaining areas

Resolved, that the GNSO Council recommends that at least (insert US dollar amount) be included in the ICANN Budget for FY 2011.

Resolved further, that the GNSO secretariat communicate this resolution to the ICANN Chief Financial Officer and the Board Finance Committee.

-- 
Steve DelBianco
Executive Director
NetChoice
http://www.NetChoice.org and http://blog.netchoice.org 
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