[council] Action Item related to Whois Service Requirements

[Mike Rodenbaugh]

Good point Tim.  Let's abandon the contentious (some might say 'ridiculous')
aspects of the so-called 'GNSO Improvements' that so many of us are wasting
so much time to address.  Then we and Staff would have a lot more time to
focus on important policy development issues like WHOIS.


Mike Rodenbaugh
Rodenbaugh Law
548 Market Street
San Francisco, CA  94104
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www.rodenbaugh.com


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org] On
Behalf Of Tim Ruiz
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 4:30 PM
To: GNSO Council
Subject: RE: [council] Action Item related to Whois Service Requirements


Where does this fall priority wise within the plethora of issues we and
staff are already dealing with right now? Seems we should be making some
either/or types of decisions at this point in time.
 
Tim  
 
  -------- Original Message --------
Subject: [council] Action Item related to Whois Service Requirements
From: Avri Doria <avri at acm.org>
Date: Tue, April 07, 2009 11:51 am
To: GNSO Council <council at gnso.icann.org>


Hi,

An action item I took away from the last meeting was to frame a request to
the staff to collect the various requirements for a new Whois service tool
or set of tools. In thinking about it, I decide that perhaps this should be
a a formal request and should be done in the form of a motion.

I have included a first draft of such a motion below. Please send comments.
I plan to add it to the agenda for our next meeting.

thanks

a.



Whereas there have been discussions for several years on the adequacy of the
current set of Whois tools to provide the necessary functions to support
existing and proposed Whois service policy requirements, 

and, there have been questions as to the adequacy of these tools for use in
an IDN environment,

and, that there have been extensive discussions about the requirements of
the Whois service with respect to Registry and registrar operations, 

and, new architectures and tools have been developed and suggested by the
technical community,

resolved, 

The GNSO Council requests that Policy Staff, with the assistance of
technical staff as required, collect and organize a comprehensive set of
requirements for the Whois service policy tools. These requirements should
reflect not only the known deficiencies in the current service but should
include any possible requirements that may be needed to support various
policy initiatives such as tiered services and privacy protection. 

The synthesis of requirements should be done in consultation with the SSAC,
ALAC, GAC and the ccNSO and should be ready for community discussion in time
for the Sydney meeting.