[council] Draft Charter for new Whois Working Group

[Ross Rader]

Maria -

Many thanks for turning this around so quickly. The draft is  
generally great. I'd like to suggest that the section entitled "work  
plan" uses the relevant text of the resolution instead of the  
language currently employed. In a couple of places, the work plan  
outlines a much greater scope of work than that contemplated by the  
resolutions, specifically;

4.a proposed expands the examination of the definition of the roles  
to all contacts, whereas the resolution only sought to examine the  
definition of the operational point of contact.

4.b proposed requests the WG to determine how third parties may  
access unpublished data for legitimate activities, whereas the  
resolution only seeks to describe how legitimate interests will  
access unpublished data. The difference seems small, but the proposed  
language requests the creation of a comprehensive proposal that  
describes an access mechanism for a long list of "legitimate  
activities" rather than a proposal that describes an access mechanism  
for use by legitimate interests.

4.c proposed additionally requests the WG to determine how the  
distinctions should be made whereas the Council resolution only  
sought to discover if the distinctions in question were possible to  
make.

In each of these cases, it might just make the most sense to rely on  
the text of the original resolution as ratified by Council to ensure  
that we don't lose clarity on our actual objectives.

Second, a question. Concerning the issue of defining agreement. When  
it comes to understanding what constitutes "broad agreement", will  
this be measured on the views shared by individuals or interest groups?

Finally, in order to ensure that we're all working from the same  
foundation, it might make sense to specifically include the policy  
recommendations of the task force in the document itself, either as a  
summary, or an annex that we can easily refer to. The policy  
recommendations that I am referring to are included in section 4 of  
the report, as per the clarifications I made during our discuss at  
the recent Council meeting.

Thanks again,

-ross



On 30-Mar-07, at 2:51 PM, Maria Farrell wrote:

> Dear Council members,
>
> Attached is the draft Charter that sets out the statement of work and
> working methodologies of the Whois Working Group, created by  
> resolution of
> the GNSO Council in Lisbon, on 28 March.
>
> Please review it and note that it will be an agenda item for  
> discussion and
> adoption at the next Council meeting on 12 April.
>
> Also, please email this list if you wish to be on the Working  
> Group, and
> feel free to to put any interested constituency members or outside  
> experts
> in touch with me for further information.
>
> All the best, Maria
> <Whois Working Group Charter2.doc>

Ross Rader
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