[Rt4-whois] No agreement on Lutz's recommendations [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Lutz Donnerhacke]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 03:05:13PM +1100, Nettlefold, Peter wrote:
> "To make WHOIS data more accessible for consumers, the review team
> recommends that ICANN should set up a dedicated, multilingual interface
> website to help users access thick gTLD WHOIS data.

Remove 'thick gTLD'. The scope is narrowed later.

> This would be a smart web portal, that would assist users to access
> publicly available WHOIS data. It is not envisaged that this would
> replicate registry databases in any way, but instead help users by
> providing a single centralised site through which to search those
> databases, and to display the WHOIS data in an accessible way.

Ack. (There is no reference zu gTLD.)

> The review team has discussed the scope of this portal, and seeks
> ecommunity views on whether it should only apply to thin gTLD registries,
> or should instead provide a comprehensive gTLD search service."

In order to be really useful, the system should be able to access any ICANN
regulated WHOIS data (which includes ASN and IP).