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<div>Resending this to BC List (since I was rejected when sending to BC-Private)</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Steve DelBianco <<a href="mailto:sdelbianco@actonline.org">sdelbianco@actonline.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:03:22 -0500<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Zahid Jamil <<a href="mailto:zahid@dndrc.com">zahid@dndrc.com</a>>, John Berard <<a href="mailto:john@crediblecontext.com">john@crediblecontext.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span><<a href="mailto:bc-private@icann.org">bc-private@icann.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Council call today<br>
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<div>John & Zahid — just a follow-up on last week's member call, where we discussed the motions you have today in Council.</div>
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<div>Motion to start a PDP on Thick WHOIS: </div>
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<div>This one is complicated. </div>
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<div>BC wants accessible and accurate WHOIS, and thick WHOIS is part of the solution. But another part of the solution is amending the RAA to require verification of WHOIS data. And the WHOIS review Team draft report includes many recommendations on WHOIS,
including a call for centralized database of WHOIS data. </div>
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<div>We also understand that registrars are not willing to share their WHOIS data with a thick .com whois or a a central database — unless ICANN adopts a new "consensus policy" requiring data sharing. And we know that it takes a PDP to create such a new consensus
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<div>However, we don't want to do anything that removes pressure on the current process to amend the RAA. And we are concerned that launching a new PDP could create an excuse for the RAA negotiators to avoid making any changes on WHOIS. </div>
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<div>John Berard was going to ask Stephane about deferring his PDP motion until after the RAA amendments are done.</div>
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<div>If John's outreach effort wasn't successful, I think the BC members would want you to ask for a deferral of the PDP motion, for reasons stated above. </div>
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<div>Motion for implementation of IRTP Recommendation 8:</div>
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<div>Support. The BC had several members on the IRTP-B working group, and we support implementation of the working group's recommendation.</div>
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<div>Motion to send letter to Board asking to allow single-letter IDN gTLDs:</div>
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<div>Support. The BC supports the expansion of gTLDs to IDN users, and wants TLDs to be able to use a single-character IDN if that's most appropriate for the linguistic community being served. </div>
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<div>Hope that's helpful. Let me know if there's any other info I can provide for today's call.</div>
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<div>Steve DelBianco</div>
<div>Vice chair for policy coordination</div>
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