Robin, 

Thanks so much for getting back. I think your comments are very useful  
regarding what I and other NCUC members might propose as studies to protect  
privacy should be proposed.  I fear without NCUC comments, there will be an  
overwhelming call for studies that show only the problems of changing the  current 
Whois (only comments from IPC and Bus).
 
I hope many on the list will submit comments.
 
Best,
Kathy
 




These studies are an  opportunity for important facts to be explored 
regarding the need for privacy  protection of Whois data, so proposing studies along 
those lines would be  useful.  Another suggestion was to conduct a study on the 
effects on  crime prevention in country-code top-level domains that shield 
some contact  data in order to protect the privacy rights of Internet users.  In 
the  comments, we want to discourage the GNSO from waiting for the outcomes 
of  these studies before whois can be reformed, however.  




- what do you think/know/sense that the Intellectual Property/  Business 
Constituencies want from this set of comments and will  demand?




I think they will propose studies to try to show consumers don't need (or  
already have sufficient) privacy protections so ICANN should not revise its  
whois policy.  Steve Delbianco from the IPC proposed the f_irst 3  studies_ 
(http://forum.icann.org/lists/whois-comments-2008/)  on 9 Jan.







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