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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi Susan,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks for picking this up, and I agree with your comments about consistency.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>To add to the complexity, I’ve pasted below the definitions we agreed in Dakar (taken from the recommendations document):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=xmsonormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Proxy</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>: A relationship in which the registrant is acting on behalf of another. The WHOIS data is that of the agent and the agent alone obtains all rights and assumes all responsibility for the domain name and its manner of use. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b>Privacy</b>: Registrant Name and a subset of other information (possibly null set) [PN: withheld?] but consistent across ICANN.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I can see that we may not want to use the exact same set of words throughout the report, as there are different contexts etc, but we should keep an agreed set of words in mind and make sure any subsequent references are fully consistent.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>My preferred ‘proxy’ definition is the one we agreed in Dakar, as it makes the legal aspects very clear.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The NORC ‘privacy’ definition seems fine, but equally we could flesh out the one we developed in Dakar a bit more – it seems fine, but a bit skeletal (I think we may have run out of words/time to finish it). Some of the other privacy definitions go into detail about how a service should act (i.e. it should provide ‘mail forwarding’ or ‘pass non-SPAM messages’), which to me seems out of place in a definition.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Peter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> rt4-whois-bounces@icann.org [mailto:rt4-whois-bounces@icann.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Susan Kawaguchi<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 29 November 2011 11:40 AM<br><b>To:</b> rt4-whois@icann.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Rt4-whois] Definitions of Privacy and Proxy<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=Default><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'>Hello All, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'>We seem to use varying definitions of privacy and proxy. I found these two </span><span lang=EN-US> definitions of both terms in our draft report</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>In Chapter 4 page 43 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Wingdings'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>u<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><i><span lang=EN-US>Privacy Services </span></i></b><span lang=EN-US>provide the Registrant's Name, but the Privacy Service's contact information. The Privacy Service passes on non-spam messages to the Registrant, particularly legal notices, acting as a type of “registered agent.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Wingdings'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>u<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><i><span lang=EN-US>Proxy Services</span></i></b><span lang=EN-US> register the domain name and license it to another for use. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Chapter 8 Page 80<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Privacy </span></i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>services limit certain user details from WHOIS by offering alternate contact information and mail forwarding services, while not actually shielding the user’s identity. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Proxy </span></i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>services have a third-party register domain names on the user’s behalf and then license the use of the domain name so that a third-party’s contact information (and not the licensee’s) is published in WHOIS. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>I prefer the definitions from the Sept. 28, 2009 NORC report. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'>Background </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'>To ensure that the community can identify who is responsible for a domain name, a registered name holder is required to provide and update, as needed, their contact information with their registrar of record. Registrars are required by ICANN to collect and provide free public access to the name of the registered domain name and its name servers and registrar, the date the domain was created and when its registration expires, and the contact information for the Registered Name Holder, the technical contact, and the administrative contact. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'>In some instances, a registered name holder chooses to limit the amount of personal information that its registrar of record makes available to the public via a Whois query of their database. To do so, a registered name holder generally uses a privacy or proxy registration service. For the purpose of this study, the definitions of privacy and proxy services, as they relate to their use in the domain name system, are as follows: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><b><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=Default><b><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=Default><b><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'>A privacy service provider </span></i></b><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'>offers the registrant an opportunity to register a domain name while concealing some personal identifying information listed in a WHOIS directory, such as his or her address, telephone number, or email address, by providing alternate contact information, often that of the privacy service provider. </span></i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'>A proxy service provider </span></i></b><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'>registers the domain name on the registrant’s behalf and then licenses the use of the domain name to the registrant. The contact information in a WHOIS directory for a domain name registered with a proxy service is that of the proxy service provider.</span></i><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>There may be an intentional use of the other definitions that I am not aware of but I feel we should provide an extremely clear definition of each term since they are currently used interchangeably in the marketplace. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Susan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Susan Kawaguchi<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Domain Name Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Facebook Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>1601 California Avenue<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Palo Alto, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Phone - 650 485-6064<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Cell - 650 387 3904<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Please note my email address has changed to skawaguchi@fb.com <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>NOTICE: This email (including any attachments) may contain information that is private, confidential, or protected by attorney-client or other privilege. 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