[RDS-WHOIS2-LawEnforcement] For reference - WHOIS Misuse Study

[Lisa Phifer]

Dear Law Enforcement subgroup members,

Following up on a chat suggestion made during our last plenary call, 
below please find the link to the WHOIS Misuse Study Final Report:

http://whois.icann.org/sites/default/files/files/misuse-study-final-13mar14-en.pdf

The goals of the WHOIS Misuse Study were much different than your 
subgroup's goals in performing outreach to law enforcement agencies. 
Nonetheless, I thought you might find it useful to consider the 
portion of the Misuse Study which involved surveying a panel of law 
enforcement contacts.

Refer to Section 4. Law Enforcement & Researchers survey on pages 
18-26 and Appendix A for the methodology used by this study, survey 
questions, and some challenges encountered. See also Section 3.1 
Selecting a Survey Panel on pages 13-14 to learn about how CMU (the 
university conducting this study under contract to ICANN) designed 
and contacted its survey panel by utilizing CMU's law enforcement and 
cybercrime researcher contacts.

I was ICANN's project interface with CMU for this study and would be 
happy to answer any questions you may have about their approach.

Best, Lisa