<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">While this is true, we cannot ignore the Affirmation of Commitments:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:28px">9.3.1 </span><abbr title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" class="" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:28px">ICANN</abbr><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:28px"> additionally commits to enforcing its existing policy relating to </span><abbr title="WHOIS (pronounced "who is"; not an acronym)" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:28px">WHOIS</abbr><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:28px">, subject to applicable laws. Such existing policy requires that </span><abbr title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:28px">ICANN</abbr><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:28px"> implement measures to maintain timely, unrestricted and public access to accurate and complete </span><abbr title="WHOIS (pronounced "who is"; not an acronym)" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:28px">WHOIS </abbr><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:28px">information, including registrant, technical, billing, and administrative contact information. One year from the effective date of this document and then no less frequently than every three years thereafter, </span><abbr title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" class="" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:28px">ICANN</abbr><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:28px"> will organize a review of </span><abbr title="WHOIS (pronounced "who is"; not an acronym)" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:28px">WHOIS</abbr><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:28px"> policy and its implementation to assess the extent to which </span><abbr title="WHOIS (pronounced "who is"; not an acronym)" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:28px">WHOIS</abbr><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:28px"> policy is effective and its implementation meets the legitimate needs of law enforcement and promotes consumer trust. </span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Stephanie Perrin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca" target="_blank">stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Further to our discussion this morning about the openness (or
otherwise) of WHOIS, here is the quote I was referring to from the
SSAC document 003, from 2003:<br>
<div style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">In order for Whois data to be readily
available it must be both accessible and usable by </div>
<div style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">automatic tools. To be accessible the
Whois protocol must be updated to support the </div>
<big><big>recent shift in the architecture to separate the functions
of the registry and the registrar. </big></big>
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<div style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">This shift has made it impractical
to support searching and frequently makes it difficult to </div>
<div style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">find Whois services. To be usable
the data returned by Whois services must in be a </div>
<div style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">common format. </div>
<div style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif"><b>However, being accessible and
usable must also protect a registrant's privacy. Many </b></div>
<div style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif"><b>countries require that personal
information is protected but in addition registrants may </b></div>
<div style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif"><b>wish to discourage the
unintended, undesirable, and otherwise unwanted uses of their
</b></div>
<div style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif"><b>Whois data. In particular, it is
widely believed that Whois data is a source of email </b></div>
<div style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif"><b>addresses for the distribution of
spam. Methods must be developed to discourage the </b></div>
<div style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif"><b>harvesting or mining of Whois
information</b>.<br>
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I interpret this as support for the notion that there have been
reservations from parties other than civil <br>
society, with respect to the concept of all WHOIS data being
freely available, from the early days of ICANN.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Stephanie Perrin<br>
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