All:
After many months of work, WHOIS Task Force 2 has finally issued a lengthy report on the WHOIS system, national privacy laws, and some proposed changes to the WHOIS system.  I am pleased to say that the report spends considerable time on the NCUC issues of: 
- that WHOIS data often contains personal data of individuals/ sensitive data of organization (e.g., human rights groups)
- WHOIS data is often misused/abused
-  National law and public policy throughout the world protect individuals and even organizations from having to publish name/address/phone/email in public directories.

The new idea introduced in the report is a change of the WHOIS system.  The report proposes a "Tiered Access System" in which the public would have access to almost no personal/sensitive data (perhaps only technical contact or name/country of registrant), and then at a second tier (where we record the requester and their reason) perhaps have some access to a bit more data to contact the domain name holder (perhaps name/email or address) and a third tier where registries and registrars still have access to all the data for technical purposes (e.g., transfering domain names).

After consultation with other WHOIS TF members, here is the "vote" I entered on this draft report:
===> "The Noncommercial Users' Constituency approves the preliminary TF2 report and supports its publication in full to the public for comment.  We note the
following concerns and reservations regarding Section 3.5 and throughout the
report, to be recorded with our vote:"
===> "The Noncommercial Users' Constituency approves of the concept of a Tiered
Access With Balance, in which the rights of the data subjects (domain name
holders) are clearly balanced with the rights of the data recipients (e.g.,
intellectual property owners).  In doing so, we submit that there must be a clear
distinction of sensitive and non-sensitive data, that domain name holders must
receive immediate notification when data is released (in most cases), and that
the system must avoid any White List (unlimited access to certain parties merely
because they are known users)." 

Regards,
Kathy  (Kleiman -- WHOIS Task Force 2 member).