[Gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg] FW: ICANN News Alert -- WHOIS Privacy Proxy Services Questionnaire (Available Until 28 February 2014)

Thu Feb 6 08:20:55 UTC 2014

For your information.

From:  ICANN News Alert <communications at icann.org>
Date:  Thursday 6 February 2014 02:24
To:  Marika Konings <marika.konings at icann.org>
Subject:  ICANN News Alert -- WHOIS Privacy Proxy Services Questionnaire
(Available Until 28 February 2014)

ICANN News Alert 
 <http://www.icann.org/>
News Alert
http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-05feb14-en.htm

WHOIS Privacy Proxy Services Questionnaire (Available Until 28 February
2014)
5 February 2014

The Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services (EWG) is seeking
information from Privacy and Proxy (P/P) Service Providers on existing
practices to inform its deliberations as it develops recommendations on best
practices for the proposed Next Generation Registration Directory Service
(RDS) to replace today's Whois system. The Questionnaire will be used to
understand current P/P Provider practices and will be made available until
28 February 2014.

Questionnaire attributes:
* Questionnaire Availability Date: 31 January 2014
* Questionnaire Address:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Privacy_and_Proxy_Services_Survey
* Questionnaire Close Date: 28 February 2014, 23:59 UTC
* Questionnaire Language: English only
All questions can be downloaded in PDF form
<https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/45744698/PP_EWG_Survey.pdf
?version=1&modificationDate=1391125472409&api=v2>  [PDF, 281 KB] for offline
review, with answers submitted either via email to PP-EWG-Survey at icann.org
or submitting answers online.

The EWG greatly appreciates any insights on this topic from those P/P
Providers interested in sharing information about their current practices.
The individual responses will be used only to understand current P/P
Provider practices and will not be published by the EWG, unless the P/P
Provider requests that its individual response be disclosed. The EWG plans
to publish a summary of anonymized, aggregated results for ICANN community
use in considering future policy recommendations, and will be shared with
the GNSO PDP Working Group on Privacy/Proxy Service Accreditation Issues.
Background
In December 2012, ICANN announced the creation of an Expert Working Group
(EWG) on next-generation gTLD Registration Directory Services, as a first
step in fulfilling the ICANN Board's directive to help redefine the purpose
and provision of gTLD registration data. The EWG's findings are expected to
serve as a foundation to help the GNSO create a new global policy for the
provision of gTLD registration data.

A significant milestone was reached on 24 June 2013
<http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-3-24jun13-en.htm>
with the publication
<http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-3-24jun13-en.htm>
of the Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services
<http://www.icann.org/en/groups/other/gtld-directory-services>  (EWG)'s
Initial Report and FAQs, opening a consultation period with the ICANN
community. The Initial Report
<http://www.icann.org/en/groups/other/gtld-directory-services/initial-report
-24jun13-en.pdf>  [PDF, 1.70 MB] enumerated the users, purposes, data
elements, recommended principles and features, and proposed model to guide
the development of a next generation Registration Directory Service (RDS) to
replace WHOIS.

Prior to the ICANN Meeting in Buenos Aires, the EWG published its Status
Update Report 
<http://www.icann.org/en/groups/other/gtld-directory-services/status-update-
11nov13-en.pdf>  [PDF, 2.26 MB] to highlight the EWG's thinking on these and
many other key issues. It also provides a great deal more detail on the
analysis that lay behind the Initial Report
<http://www.icann.org/en/groups/other/gtld-directory-services/initial-report
-24jun13-en.pdf>  [PDF, 1.70 MB].

The EWG is currently in its research and information gathering phase. This
Questionnaire is one of several research efforts that the EWG is currently
undertaking to ensure that its final recommendations are supported by facts
and informed by current practices.
What's Next?
The EWG expects to complete its recommendations in 2014, informed by
Community feedback and in-depth analysis of selected areas, including the
responses to this Questionnaire. The EWG plans to reconvene in March 2014 to
derive fact-based recommendations after carefully examining the results of
its research, and expects to deliver its final report to the ICANN Board by
June 2014.
Questions
If questions arise about the Questionnaire or the online tool, please
contact Margie Milam at PP-EWG-Survey at icann.org.

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