[registrars] Questionnaire

[Robert F. Connelly]

Dear Members:  We have been asked to circulate the following questionnaire 
to our members.

Regards, BobC

Would you please distribute this questionnaire to the Registrar's 
Constituency members. As requested, we would like it completed as soon as 
possible, with replies by February 16th, if possible. The replay address is:
tf2-survey at gnso.icann.org.

Thank you for your help with this,

Regards,

Barbara Roseman

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The GNSO's WHOIS Task Force #2 is chartered with reviewing the current
ICANN whois policy regarding the collection, disclosure and transmittal
of data.

It would be a great help to the Task Force if you could answer the
following questions in regard to your own practices as a registrar.  If
you operate through resellers, please provide whatever relevant
responses you can with regard to their practices, and also please
forward these questions to key resellers responsible for at leaast 70
percent of your reseller volume so that they may respond directly to
the Task Force.

Please return your responses to the Task Force no later than February
16.  All responses to this questionnaire will be archived and made
public, although e-mail addresses will be obfuscated in order to limit 
spam. Please send your relies to tf2-survey at gnso.icann.org

1. What mechanisms do you use to inform potential and existing
      registrants of the following:

      (a)   the purposes for which contact data is collected;
      (b)   the intended recipients or categories of recipients of contact
data;
      (c)   which contact data are obligatory and which (if any) are
voluntary;
      (d)   how registrants may access and seek to rectify their contact
data.

2. What mechanisms do you use to obtain consent from registrants for
      use of their contact data?  Please provide applicable URLs.


3. If you offer registrations through channels other than your website,
      how do the mechanisms used to inform registrants of the use of their
      contact data, and to gain consent for that usage, differ from those
used
      on the website?

4. What requirements, if any, do you make of your resellers in terms of
      informing registrants of the use of their contact data, and gaining
      consent for that usage?


5. Do you provide any mechanisms for anonymous domain registrations?
      If so, under what conditions, if any, is the registrant's
      anonymity lifted, or the anonymous registration canceled?

6. Do you provide any mechanisms to limit the amount of contact data
      made publicly available through WHOIS?  If so, under what
      conditions is access -- if any -- to those data granted which are
      collected, but not made publicly available through WHOIS?

7. Describe any accommodations that you have made to comply with local
      laws pertaining to the collection or display of contact information.
      Please cite the specific laws.