<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Dear Friends in NCUC:<BR>
I am sending this note to let you know of my leaving the Whois TF, and shortly, the Constituency. As many of you know, it has been some time since I represented an organization in the NCUC (ACM's Internet Governance Project) and I have served informally as a legal and policy counsel to our constituency since that time.<BR>
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My big contribution, I think, was the Whois Task Force. Over 4 1/2 years and thousands of hours of work, we:<BR>
- achieved recognition of the fact that privacy and data protection exist around the world, protect fundamental rights, and absolutely apply to the personal data in the Whois database.<BR>
- publicized the comments and calls for privacy from Data Protection Commissioners, including most recently in Marrakech (where the comments of the Article 29 Working Party Chair received great attention)<BR>
- held a pivotal, timely, standing room only conference in Vancouver on Whois issues with a unique combination of ccTLDs, gTLDs, and outside telecom privacy experts.<BR>
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But my ability to work on behalf of the NCUC is now ended. Effective immediately, I must resign my WHOIS TF representation and move on to other projects. I will stay in the Constituency, if you would like, for a week or two -- to help bring a new TF representative up to speed. But I have to move quickly to other waiting work. <BR>
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There is an important Whois TF meeting this Monday at 10:30 AM EST.<BR>
I hope someone can attend. <BR>
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Regards, Kathy<BR>
p.s. You will find the Privacy Laws spreadsheet and other Whois documents at NCDNHC.ORG on the Archives page. NCDNHC.ORG under What's New includes an Agenda for the Vancouver Whois conference with wonderful slides from many speakers. </FONT></HTML>