I confess I have serious trouble understanding ICANN processes! :-)  Is
this good, bad, or did they duck the whole thing?


Rick

Frederick W. Weingarten
Director, Office for Information Technology Policy
American Library Association
1615 New Hampshire Ave, NW
Washington, DC  20009
(202) 628-8410

-----Original Message-----
From: Non-Commercial User Constituency
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mawaki Chango
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 8:24 AM
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Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Fwd: [council] Proposed motion on WHOIS

--- 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.
> 
>