[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] New Year Challenge

[Stephanie Perrin]

Happy New Year all! You are probably going to hate me because I am going 
to slow us down again.  The problem is that we frame the discussion and 
thinking so very differently, depending on the expertise that we bring 
to this debate, that understanding the minutiae is very important.  For 
instance on  a recent call I questioned whether an individual needed to 
look at WHOIS to see who their registrar is, and was promptly corrected 
in this matter.  Naive person that I am, I had never plumbed the depths 
of the reseller business, and I am not finding much useful information 
on the ICANN site that will help me do this (please help and point me to 
how this happens, what kind of contracts pass on obligations, how this 
is interpreted under DP law, why I cannot find my registrar on any of 
the lists of ICANN accredited registrars, consumer protection 
obligations under US law, how this works in the privacy proxy business 
etc.).  IN my responses to the questionnaire, I have pointed out that it 
is the registrars and registries or their agents that collect/generate 
the Thin data.  The proposed RDS, which at the moment is still protean, 
is not an entity, cannot collect etc, but is instead a display mechanism 
or automated disclosure instrument.  So framing this in terms of 
collection is in my view quite misleading, unless I am totally 
misunderstanding the poll (always possible).

Anyway if anyone can help me understand how resellers work I would be 
most grateful.  It would probably also save us a pile of time if I 
understood it better, if that can possibly incentivize some brave soul.....

cheers Stephanie Perrin



On 2017-01-03 10:31, Gomes, Chuck wrote:
>
> A few weeks ago one of our WG members said something to me that I 
> think might be a good challenge for many of us as we begin 2017:  “I 
> think people (including me) need to snap back to attention. I think we 
> lost focus because of the incredible amount of lost traffic on 
> minutiae that was so hard for non-ICANN insiders to follow.”
>
> If this applies to you, I hope you will respond.
>
> I can tell you that no one gets more frustrated with minutiae than 
> me.  I have just been at this for so long that I have learned minutiae 
> for one person is important to someone else so I have realized that I 
> have to have a lot of patience. Still, I often find myself wanting to 
> push faster ahead and the leadership team has to pull me back.
>
> It has taken us about 11 months to get to where we are and it may seem 
> like we have made very little progress but I am hopeful that we have 
> laid some building blocks that will make our work ahead easier.  We 
> need to all keep in mind that the ICANN community has been grappling 
> with Whois (RDS) issues for most of its 18-year existence with very 
> minimal progress.  If we are going to change that pattern, we will 
> have to be patient and persistent.
>
> As we ended 2016 we reached the critical deliberation stage of Work 
> Plan Phase 1. None of us should think that that will be easy or quick; 
> it won’t be.  But I am confident that we will start to see more 
> concrete results of our efforts.
>
> I encourage all of you to start off this year by completing the poll 
> that was distributed last week.  You have until Friday of this week to 
> complete it.  Here is the link to the poll: 
> https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/V3CWZBL .
>
> Happy New Year.
>
> Chuck
>
>
>
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