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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>WHOIS Privacy Issue
Table, August 14</b></font></p>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">ISSUE</font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Business users</font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">gTLD registries</font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Internet Service providers</font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Non Commercial users</font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Registrars</font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Intellectual Property Interests</font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">TOTAL</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. Should the elements of data
that registrars are required to collect at the time of registration of a
domain name be revised? (See Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) § 3.2.)
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. Should registrars be prohibited
by ICANN from collecting additional items of data? </font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">3. Should all registrants, or
certain classes of registrants (see Issue 18 below), be afforded the option
of not providing some or all elements that registrars are required to collect
and, if so, which elements? </font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">4. Should the current mechanism
for pseudonymous registration be changed or supplemented with one or more
alternative mechanisms? (See RAA § 3.7.7.3.) Should steps be taken to encourage
broader availability of this mechanism?</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">5. Are the current requirements
that registrars make disclosures to, and obtain consent by, registrants
concerning the uses of collected data adequate and appropriate? (See RAA
§§ 3.7.7.4 to 3.7.7.6.) </font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1</font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">6. Are the procedures currently
followed by registrars adequate to promote accurate, complete, and up-to-date
data, as required by both privacy and accountability principles? (See RAA
§§ 3.7.7.1, 3.7.7.2, and 3.7.8, as well as the GNSO’s Whois recommendations
on accuracy adopted by the ICANN Board on 27 March 2003.)</font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">7. What should be the consequences
when a registrant provides inaccurate or incomplete data, or fails to correct
inaccurate or incomplete data? (See RAA §§ 3.7.7.1, 3.7.7.2, and 3.7.8.)
Are safeguards needed to prevent abusive reports of inaccuracies? Should
certain classes of registrants (see Issue 18 below) be permitted to provide
inaccurate or incomplete data? </font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">8. Are the current requirements
that registrars handle personal data according to the notices given at the
time of registration, and in a manner that avoids loss, misuse, unauthorized
access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction, adequate and appropriate?
(See RAA §§ 3.7.7.7 and 3.7.7.8.) </font></td>
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<td height="155"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">9. Are the current
requirements for handling of registrar data by registry operators adequate
and appropriate? </font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">10. Are the current means of
query-based access appropriate? Should both web-based access and port-43
access be required? (RAA § 3.3.1.) </font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1</font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1</font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">5</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">11. What are the purposes for
providing public query-based access? Are the elements currently required
to be disclosed in public query-based access adequate and appropriate? (RAA
§ 3.3.1.)</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">12. What measures, if any, should
registrars and registry operators be permitted to take to limit data mining
of Whois servers? </font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1</font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1</font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">5</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">13. Should access to data be
differentiated based on the party receiving access, or based on the use
to which the data will be put? If so, how should differentiated access be
implemented and how should the cost of differentiation be funded? </font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">14. Should the current requirement
that registrars provide bulk Whois access for non-marketing uses be further
limited or eliminated? (RAA § 3.3.6, as well as the GNSO’s Whois recommendations
on accuracy adopted by the ICANN Board on 27 March 2003.) </font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1</font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">15. Which uses of Whois data
by members of the public should be permitted (e.g., resolving technical
problems, sourcing spam, identifying online merchants, law enforcement activities,
identifying online infringers for enforcement of intellectual property rights,
etc.)? Which uses should be prohibited? </font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">16. How should restrictions
on permissible uses by members of the public be enforced? (RAA §§ 3.3.6.3
to 3.3.6.5.) </font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">17. To what extent is Whois
data actually used to the harm of registrants (e.g., identity theft, spam,
stalking, and other harassment)? </font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">18. Should certain types of
registrants (e.g., those using domains for political and similar activities)
be exempt from the usual requirements to provide data, or to have it available
in Whois? How should the eligibility of particular registrants for these
exemptions be determined? Are measures required to address the possibility
of abuses in the classification procedure? </font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">19. Should registrars have the
option, independent of their customers, to protect the confidentiality of
Whois data based on registrars’ proprietary rights to that data? Are the
current provisions permitting registrars to claim proprietary rights in
personal data about their customers appropriate? (RAA § 3.5.) </font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">20. Should there be ICANN requirements
limiting registrars' ability to sell or use Whois data, or other data collected
about customers, for commercial purposes? </font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1</font></td>
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<td height="67"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">TOTAL</font></td>
<td height="67"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">5</font></td>
<td height="67"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">5</font></td>
<td height="67"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">5</font></td>
<td height="67"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">5</font></td>
<td height="67"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">5</font></td>
<td height="67"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">5</font></td>
<td height="67"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">30</font></td>
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