[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Why are we spending time on a RDS Purpose statement?

[Stephanie Perrin]

Does "assignment" work?

Stephanie Perrin


On 2016-10-04 08:41, Deacon, Alex wrote:
> Thanks Chuck.
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> This history and background helps focus our discussion.
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> Looking at the Board resolution, I think the following purpose seems 
> to fit the bill and I’d like to suggest we include this on our list.
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> “The purpose of collecting, maintaining and providing access to gTLD 
> registration data is to provide a record of domain name ownership”.
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> Note I suspect the word “ownership” isn’t quite appropriate here - so 
> some word-smithing may be required.
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> Alex
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>> On Sep 30, 2016, at 5:28 PM, Gomes, Chuck <cgomes at verisign.com 
>> <mailto:cgomes at verisign.com>> wrote:
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>> Some of us, myself included, have been getting impatient because  of 
>> the time we have been spending on a RDS purpose statement.  In that 
>> regard, Lisa reminded me of why it is important to do that and I want 
>> to forward her comments to the full WG.  The following is a direct 
>> quote from her message.
>> “We are attempting to be responsive to the board and SSAC request for 
>> this PDP to address up front this question:
>>
>> */"Resolved (2015.04.26.10)/*/, the Board reaffirms its request for a 
>> Board-initiated GNSO policy development process to define the purpose 
>> of collecting, maintaining and providing access to gTLD registration 
>> data, and consider safeguards for protecting data, using the 
>> recommendations in theFinal Report 
>> <https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/final-report-06jun14-en.pdf>[PDF, 
>> 5.12 MB] as an input to, and, if appropriate, as the foundation for a 
>> new gTLD policy."
>>
>> /InSAC055, WHOIS: Blind Men and an Elephant 
>> <https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-055-en.pdf>,[1] the 
>> SSAC found that further work should be undertaken prior to 
>> implementation of the WHOIS Policy Review Team?s recommendations, 
>> concluding:
>>
>> /"1. It is critical that ICANN should develop a policy defining the 
>> purpose of domain name registration data;
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>> 2. ICANN should create a committee to develop a registration data 
>> policy that defines the purpose of domain name registration data; and
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>> 3. ICANN should defer other activity directed at finding a ?solution? 
>> to ?the WHOIS problem? until the registration data policy identified 
>> in (1) and (2) has been developed and accepted."
>>
>> /This is why this WG must examine not just policies that pertain to 
>> access, and not just a system that provides that access, but the 
>> entire purpose of collecting, maintaining, and providing access to 
>> data. This applies whether that system is a new next-gen system or an 
>> updated WHOIS system. If we cannot make some headway on the question 
>> of purpose, as SAC055 pointed out and the board agreed, then we are 
>> unlikely to make headway on specific policies intended to support 
>> each stakeholder's varying and sometimes divergent views about what 
>> the purpose should be.
>> Chuck
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