Draft GAC Whois Principles for Sao Paulo meeting

[Milton Mueller]

DRAFT GAC PRINCIPLES ON WHOIS/PRIVACY
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A U.S.-led Task Force in ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC)
released version 3 of its "Whois "Principles" in preparation for the
ICANN meeting in Brazil, where it will be debated and finalized.

European countries pushed back against U.S. Government efforts to stop
ICANN from respecting privacy concerns in its handling of domain name
registrant contact data, but their efforts were only partially
successful. The current draft contains much that is objectionable,
including a very broad definition of the purpose of Whois that is
inconsistent with the one adopted by ICANN's policy making Council, the
GNSO.

Download document here:
http://internetgovernance.org/pdf/DraftGACWhoisPrinciples.pdf



Dr. Milton Mueller
Syracuse University School of Information Studies
http://www.digital-convergence.org
http://www.internetgovernance.org