[Rt4-whois] Procedure for Handling Whois Conflicts with Privacy Laws

[Denise Michel]

Dear Team members:

To follow-up on a question raised this morning -- the "ICANN Procedure
For Handling WHOIS Conflicts with Privacy Law" doesn't impose any
obligations on registrars and is referred to as a "procedure" as it is
not a policy that registrars are contractually obligated to implement.

The GNSO concluded a policy development process on the establishment
of a procedure and in 2006 ICANN's Board adopted the policy and
directed ICANN staff to issue a conflicts procedure.   While the
procedure includes possible actions for the affected gTLD
registry/registrar, this procedure does not impose any new obligations
on registries/registrars.  The procedure can be found here:

http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/whois_national_laws_procedure.htm

Please let me know if you need more information.

Regards,
Denise

Denise Michel
ICANN
Advisor to the President & CEO
denise.michel at icann.org
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