Purpose of WHOIS materials

[Danny Younger]

In response to a GNSO Council request, ICANN Staffer
Maria Farrell has provided informational materials
relating to the purpose of WHOIS.  The documents
posted deal with:

1.  The uses of WHOIS data
2.  examples of language on WHOIS purposes within gTLD
registrant agreements
3.  similar examples from the ccTLD community
4.  a summary of interpretations of the definition of
WHOIS drawn from public comments

See
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg02810.html

The next Whois Task Force call will be held on Monday,
18 September. It will discuss:

*       Suggested changes to the Operational Point of
Contact (OPoC) proposal following the discussion on
the 26 August call.
*       Suggested changes to the OPoC following the
discussion on the consequences of removing data from
Whois.

The initial OPoC proposal may be found here:
http://code.byte.org/_attachments/1426464/Proposal%20to%20Implement%20oPOC%20-%2011282005.pdf

Reminder -- in view of Kathy's departure from the
WHOIS TF, the NCUC should sometime soon designate a
replacement representative.

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com