[ispcp] WG: [council] Draft Terms of Reference for WHOIS Proxy/Privacy Services "abuse" study

[KnobenW at telekom.de]

If you have any suggestions regarding the study outline pls. refer to
Liz directly and cc to the list.
 


Regards 
Wolf-Ulrich 

 


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	Von: owner-council at gnso.icann.org
[mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org] Im Auftrag von Liz Gasster
	Gesendet: Freitag, 30. April 2010 18:58
	An: GNSO Council 
	Betreff: [council] Draft Terms of Reference for WHOIS
Proxy/Privacy Services "abuse" study
	
	

	All, 

	 

	The attached draft defines a WHOIS Privacy and Proxy Abuse Study
which methodically analyzes a representative sample of gTLD domains
associated with a variety of illegal/harmful Internet activities. By
measuring how often these alleged and confirmed "bad actors" use
Privacy/Proxy registrations, compared to the overall frequency of
Privacy/Proxy registrations, this study will attempt to prove or
disprove the following hypothesis:

	 

	A significant percentage of the domain names used to conduct
illegal or harmful Internet activities are registered via Privacy or
Proxy services to obscure the perpetrator's identity.

	 

	This draft is based on input proposals, refined to address
several key challenges, including methods needed to study short-lived
vs. long-lived activities, enumeration of useful input sources, and
filtering of false positive reports. Suggestions are welcome; in
particular, please consider the review questions posed on page 8. The
next step will be to issue an RFP to determine study cost and
feasibility by soliciting bids from researchers to conduct this study.

	 

	Please note that a separate study is still being drafted to
measure delays associated with Privacy/Proxy Reveal. 

	 

	Please provide all input by COB 14 May.  We will finalize the
RFP based on the input we receive.

	 

	Thanks, Liz

	 

	 

	Liz Gasster

	Senior Policy Counselor

	ICANN

	 

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