--- Bruce Tonkin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Subject: [council] Proposed motion on WHOIS
> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:49:11 +1000
> From: "Bruce Tonkin" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "Council GNSO" <[log in to unmask]>
> 
> Proposed Motion
> 
> In response to the extensive community and Government input on
> the
> definition of the purpose of WHOIS, the GNSO Council agrees to
> undertake
> the following steps:
> 
> One:  Each Council member that voted in favour of the
> definition will
> provide a brief explanation of the reason for supporting the
> resolution
> and their understanding of its meaning.
> 
> Two: the ICANN staff will provide a summary of the other
> interpretations
> of the definition that have been expressed by the community
> and
> Governments.
> 
> Three: the Council will undertake a dialogue with the GAC and
> SSAC on
> developing a broadly understandable definition of the purposes
> for which
> the current data required in the RRA is collected.
> 
> Four: The GNSO Council requests that the WHOIS task force
> continue with
> their work as specified in the terms of reference taking into
> account
> the recent input that has been provided.
> 
> Five: The GNSO Council will take the final report from the
> WHOIS task
> force that addresses all terms of reference, and the
> definition of
> purpose of collecting data derived from the dialogue with the
> GAC and
> SSAC, and consider improving the wording of the WHOIS service
> definition
> so that it is broadly understandable.
> 
> The GNSO Council notes that the current definition is related
> to the
> service that provides public access to some or all of the data
> collected, and is not a definition of the purpose of the data
> itself.
> 
>