Fwd: [council] Input from the Australian Government on the WHOIS service

[Adam Peake]

How did Bruce Tonkin vote?

What's does Australian privacy law have to say related to whois?
Roger Clarke <http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/> might help.

Adam



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>Hello All,
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>The note below was sent to me four hours ago as chair of the GNSO
>Council.
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>Regards,
>Bruce Tonkin
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>AUSTRALIA'S CONTRIBUTION TO GNSO COUNCIL ON WHOIS
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>Australia would like to reiterate to the GNSO Council the position it
>conveyed during the GNSO Council - Government Advisory Committee (GAC)
>Working Group meeting on 26 March 2006.
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>On the information available to us, Formulation 2, as identified in the
>Final Task Force Report on the Purpose of Whois and of the Whois
>Contacts, appears to better reflect the public policy interests of a
>fully functional Whois regime from an Australian perspective.
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>At this point, Australia considers that Whois should:
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>*	satisfy the traditional and ongoing goal of ensuring the
>security and stability of the Internet;
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>*	provide the ability to identify and respond to those involved in
>criminal activity such as child pornography, 'phishing' and identity
>theft;
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>*	provide an appropriate level of data to any user that seeks it
>including, for example, civil and criminal law enforcement officials,
>online consumers, network operators, intellectual property rights
>holders and registrars and registries;
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>*	support national laws and global agreements associated with
>privacy, trade practices, consumer protection, intellectual property
>rights and copyright protection; and
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>*	operate in a manner that is technically feasible and cost
>effective for registrars and registries, and does not rely solely on the
>registrant to be implementable.
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>We appreciate that Whois is a complex issue with a range of  interests.
>Given this, we consider that it is important that the GAC and GNSO
>Council continue to exchange information and views.
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>Australia will work with other GAC members  to ensure that the GAC is
>well placed to have effective dialogue with the GNSO community in
>Marrakesh.
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>
>
>ASHLEY CROSS
>GAC Representative -AUSTRALIA
>April 2006