[Rt4-whois] Recommendations

[Kim G. von Arx]

I got the time from our wiki.  I won't be able to make the call as I have my daughter and she usually wakes up at that time. 

Anyway, here are three, of many, suggested changes that I think may be prudent: 

1. Make a distinction between legal and natural persons and also provide an exemption for certain natural person registrants to be "categorized" as "persons" requiring some privacy/protection, e.g., battered women shelters. 
2. Implement a random audit of Registrants to verify the accuracy of their information in the WHOIS database.  This should include a global requirement for each registrant to confirm his/her/its contact details every year or every 6 months, e.g., send email to registrant, registrant needs to go to a link, provide some authentication tool, and confirm information.  Note, this is per registrant and NOT per domain name.  
3. Provide some special access to law enforcement and UDRP applicants to WHOIS information for legitimate and reasonable reasons of natural and legal persons, but it needs to be a controlled access. 

Finally, thanks Lynn for the RFP.  Great work and I am fine with it.  While I think that the legal language should be tightened up, but since ICANN legal does not want to share theirs I don't see why we lawyers should put our neck out there and provide legal advice on that front.  In light of that, I am fine with the content of the RFP, but would urge ICANN to conduct its own due diligence with respect to the terms and conditions of the RFP to ensure proper legal protection. 

Kim    


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