Urgent: your response needed

[Adam Peake]

haven't there been enough face to face and all 
other kinds of meetings on whois?

At 2:04 AM -0400 8/25/01,
>
>In short, I believe that ICANN should not be openly promoting a position on
>WHOIS at this time that clearly breaks the Privacy Laws of the 15 nations of
>the European Union, Israel, Argentina, and possibly other countries that may
>well follow suit in due course. On such a sensitive issue as Privacy, the
>Board is in an irreconcilable position in my opinion on this issue. Whatever
>the network troubleshooting and TM issues may be, these must be balanced
>against the societal issues with greater care than I have so far seen in
>evidence.
>


Above is the first quote I have relevant to whois 
in my NCDNHC mailbox.  August 25 2001.  And I 
don't even follow the issue closely...  Enough 
already.

Adam



At 9:13 AM -0700 9/17/07, Danny Younger wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>Milton has requested that I share a clarification of
>my views with the list; I am happy to do so.
>
>Milton,
>
>I have no issues with Ross's proposal.  By the same
>token, I do not believe that it (no standardized
>policy) represents the best way forward.  I recall the
>face-to-face multi-day policy session that we had on
>the topic of new gTLDs in Washington where you and
>Mawaki and I participated.  What emerged was a lowest
>common denominator understanding (not exactly
>consensus, but reasonably close) that guided a path
>forward.
>
>I see the value in face-to-face discussions and
>recognize the fact that other proposals heretofore
>submitted had been given short shrift by members of
>Jordyn Buchanan's WHOIS TF.  I am not prepared to give
>up either on these proposals or on the concept of the
>value of ongoing multi-stakeholder dialogue on this
>topic.
>
>I would rather see the NCUC put forward a motion
>calling for intersessional multi-party discussions on
>WHOIS.  Less in-your-face, and more face-to-face.
>
>regards,
>Danny Younger
>
>
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