[Rt4-whois] Next steps - some ideas

[Emily Taylor]

Hi everyone

Thank you very much for making our time at ICANN San Francisco effective and rewarding.  I think our teamwork is improving constantly, and I was impressed (and grateful) that so many team members attended so many of our outreach meetings, and contributed actively.  I know that you all had multiple other things to do at the meeting, and believe that this investment will help us to develop a shared understanding of the way that different sections of the ICANN community think about the issues.

I'm sure we'd also all like to recognise and thank the ICANN staff team for an excellent job in supporting our meetings, setting up meetings with multiple communities, and coping with ever changing powerpoint presentations. Thank you very much.

To take the work on, and try to comply with our published work programme, I've put together a straw man for a report outline.  Basically, I have  been trying to make sense of the work we have done to date, and provide a context for all the activity we have undertaken so far.  I'd like to discuss this on our next call.

You will see that I believe we need professional help (don't we all?) in developing a "consumer trust" questionnaire and undertaking the research.  We don't have the specialist skills or resources within the team to undertake this sort of research.  I would welcome views on this.  

Kathy and I spent some time with Denise during the ICANN meeting, to discuss logistics going forward.  Denise pointed out that if we plan to have external research (1) we need to get approval for a budget increase, and (2) we need to go through a tendering process of some kind - this will add time and require input/effort from us on the Review Team.  I'm sure James can attest to that given his time on the ATRT.

Another point is that, while we were in San Francisco, Bill, and I and others started to think about our work as the implementation subteam.  After a useful informal conversation with members of the ICANN compliance team, and an informal chat with James (as a registrar), Bill offered to go and spend some time work shadowing the compliance team some time in May.  I understand that James has also kindly offered to attend.  Susan - your name as a west-coaster was also mentioned as someone who might be prepared to join this expedition.  

Thank you Bill, James (and maybe Susan) for offering to do this.  I think it will give an invaluable insight into the work of the compliance team.

So, please can you:

1. All - take a look at the attached 2 page report outline, and give feedback on this list
2. Law Enforcement subteam - please start to develop questions for law enforcement to identify the legitimate needs.  I understand that you have started some thinking along these lines.
3. Consumer trust subteam - continue your work on a questionnaire for discussion with the full team at our next call.
4. Policy subteam - if you agree with the proposed outline, you could start a write up on the policy inventory.
5. Bill, James (?Susan) - agree a date for work shadow with the compliance team.


Look forward to our heated discussions.

Kind regards


Emily


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