On Thursday, 18 December 2008 00:24:19 William Drake wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is anyone else planning on being on the WHOIS call that commences in
> less than an hour, 18:00 UTC?
>

Hi Bill,

I am sorry to be so late - back from travel and still overwhelmed with work 
backlog.

I am sure you got this mail:

From: "Tim Ruiz" <[log in to unmask]>
  To: "Council GNSO" <[log in to unmask]>
  Date: 16.12.2008 23:43

At the end he says:

"Comment of RrC: The RrC continues to maintain that no studies should be 
pursued. We have over six years of history 							
on this topic. It was clear through those years that the stakeholder groups 
were entrenched in their views and positions									
and there is no evidence or any other indication that any of these studies 
will change that."

It was probably six years ago, that we were already informed that 
now "everything is clear for WHOIS except one point where there is a 
controversy: the purpose of the WHOIS data."

This situation is in Tim's comment also: we have discussed things to the end, 
we once voted - majority, not only NCUC - that the WHOIS process has looked 
into all aspects and now we decide - and after the GNSO Council had decided, 
the process was rolled up again.

In the NCUC, we have basically maintained through all these years that the 
WHOIS data have been created with a clear purpose: to identify the 
person/institution who is the holder of a domain - for technical contact and 
billing etc. That was our general position over the years.

All additions are "alien" to this - there are procedures for law enforcement 
and Intellectual Property concerns - technical and legal - and in he NCUC we 
used to say that ICANN (as also ICANN's statute says) is for the stability of 
the network. So no burdening with alien tasks - for which there are state 
laws and regulations.

I think to go along with the statement by Tim Ruiz is historically and 
contentwise the NCUC majority position.


Norbert								


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