On 24 May 2006 at 15:19, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I would very much like to attend, but will need support from NCUC to
> attend.  Is there a process of applying for travel funding?

Anyone who wants to attend should apply to the chair or the EC -- the 
common list works as well, of course. We try to ensure that as many of 
our GNSO council members as possible can attend, but if the funds are 
sufficient, we (EC) certainly try to fund the attendance of other NCUC 
members as well. It seems likely that the grants we can offer for 
Marrakesh will cover a fixed amount and thus be partial only. Yet task 
force meetings are a good reason to apply. Making it possible to attend 
to the meetings is what most of the PIR money is there for, after all.

> >>> <[log in to unmask]> 5/23/2006 9:16 AM >>>
> If no personal data is listed, how do you feel about listing the person
> who holds legal control of the domain name -- the individual,
> organization, small business, etc?

Now that I'm writing this, I may at least "add my mustard" (a German 
idiom) to the whois question. In Germany we have a law that forces 
everybody who runs a site (not necessarily a domain name) in a 
"businesslike" manner ("geschäftsmässig") to publish an imprint on his 
site. I won't go into the legal details of what businesslike may or may 
not be. I see that as a good aproach to separate the legal stuff from the 
technical, as businesses or organisations are somewhat more likely to 
attract legal attention, whereas for individuals privacy should be more 
important. But anyhow, each country may choose its own individual 
solution. I still do not think that it is up to ICANN to set the level 
here by enforcing an imprint (even without details) on every domain 
holder by so-called technical standards. Most legal entities may be 
interested to publish their contact address, so maybe the whois entry 
could contain an *optional* legal contact tag. (I hope that this idea 
does not open any backdoors. Plus you can already add optional entries 
with the whois the way it is now, if I am not mistaken.) Above that, I 
see no reason for any legal content in a technical database.

	--iliya

PS: Like anybody Denic (.de) also demands all the details to be published 
in whois, regardeless of "businesslike" or not.