[council] ICANN posts Final Task Force Report On Whois Services

[GNSO.SECRETARIAT@GNSO.ICANN.ORG]

[To: ga[at]gnso.icann.org; announce[at]gnso.icann.org]
[To: liaison6c[at]gnso.icann.org; council[at]gnso.icann.org]
[To: regional-liaisons[at]icann.org]


ICANN posts Final Task Force Report On Whois Services
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-16mar07.htm

Final Task force report on WHOIS Services
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/whois-services-final-tf-report-12mar07.htm

Proposed Changes to the Whois Service - ICANN Staff Discussion Points
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/staff-discussion-points-whois-final-15mar2007.htm
To assist the GNSO in its deliberations, and to support the work of the 
community, the ICANN staff has prepared 'Staff Notes on Potential 
Implementation Issues.' This document details implementation questions 
and issues relating to the Task Force policy recommendation and its 
minority report — the 'Operational Point of Contact' (OPoC) proposal and 
the 'Special Circumstances' proposal -- and is intended to inform 
ongoing policy work on these issues in a constructive way.

Online Discussion Forum on Final Task Force Report

Submit comments to: whois-comments-2007 at icann.org
View comments at http://forum.icann.org/lists/whois-comments-2007/

A forum has been set up to facilitate further discussion on Whois and 
the Final Task Force Report. This forum is not part of the formal policy 
development process, but has been created to allow ICANN stakeholders to 
continue to share and discuss their views on the output of the Whois 
Task Force and to inform the process as it moves forward at the GNSO 
Council level.

Next Steps

The GNSO Council will now begin consideration of the Task Force 
recommendations. The Council will hold public discussions on this topic 
during the ICANN Lisbon meetings, and will continue its work online and 
through conference calls thereafter (updates on Council Whois activities 
can be found at http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/). Following 
its deliberations, the GNSO Council may make a policy recommendation to 
the ICANN Board. Should the ICANN Board receive a recommendation from 
the GNSO Council, it must then consider whether to accept it.


Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
http://gnso.icann.org