This seems endless, but we should prepare carefully the statement of why 
we voted in favor of the current formulation. It would be a single 
statement for our three council reps, right?

I would insist with Bruce that each statement be immediately circulated 
to all GNSO council members as soon as it is received -- which justifies 
us doing ours as soon as possible.

frt rgds

--c.a.

Mawaki Chango wrote:
> --- 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.
>>
>>
> 
> 

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diretor de planejamento
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