Milton,

Ross's latest motion:

Whereas;

(i) The GNSO Council has considered the reports of the
Whois Working Group and Whois Task Force, and;
(ii) That the GNSO Council vote on resolution [XXXXX]
failed to produce supermajority or majority support
for the recommendations of the report of the Task
Force, and;
(iii) The GNSO Council considers that the results of
this vote signifies the continued lack of consensus on
the key issues and possible solutions to those issues,
both within the Council, the GNSO and between key
stakeholder groups, and;
(iv) The GNSO Council recognizes that there is no
standing consensus policy concerning the management of
the Whois service and data provided to the public
through that service by ICANN's contracted commercial
operators, the registries and registrars. save and
except the Whois Data Reminder Policy and the Whois
Marketing Restriction Policy, and;
(v) That significant policy must have the support of
the Internet and DNS community and without that
support, those policies cannot be reasonably
implemented or enforced.


Therefore be it resolved;

(i) That, with regret, the GNSO Council advises the
ICANN staff and Board of Directors of the lack of
general consensus on the key issues and solutions
pertaining to gTLD Whois, and;
(ii) That due to this lack of consensus the GNSO
Council recommends that the Board consider
"sunsetting" the existing current contractual
requirements concerning Whois for registries,
registrars and registrants that are not supported by
consensus policy by removing these unsupported
provisions from the current operating agreements
between ICANN and its contracted parties, and;
(iii) That these provisions be sunset no later than
the end of the 2008 ICANN Annual General Meeting and;
(iv) That such provisions will remain sunset until
such time that consensus policy in this area has been
developed to replace the sunset provisions, at which
point they will be eliminated or modified.


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Regards,


Ross Rader




       
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