Veni, I would appreciate receiving a clarification regarding point 5 in the ICANN Affirmation of Responsibilities. This point states (in part): "TLD Management: ICANN shall continue to enforce existing policy relating to WHOIS, such existing policy requires that ICANN implement measures to maintain timely, unrestricted and public access to accurate and complete WHOIS information, including registrant, technical, billing and administrative contact information." My questions are as follows: 1. The public presentation of billing contact information is not a current requirement under the terms of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement and as such does not constitute an element of existing policy relating to WHOIS. Why then is the Board stipulating that unrestricted public access to billing contact information is an element of current WHOIS policy? 2. What constitutes "enforcement" of existing policy relating to WHOIS? Does this mean that the use of proxy services will be banned by ICANN? Have Directors discussed this possibility? 3. As there seem to be many issues associated with point 5, have Directors discussed the possibility of seeking a clarifying amendment under the terms of Section IIIC of the Joint Agreement? Which Directors favored asking for a clarification? Which Directors opposed such a move? 4. Why didn't ICANN act to affirm the enforcement of other policies (such as those that focus on security by requiring registrant data escrow)? Why did the Board agree to single out only WHOIS policy for enforcement? As always, looking forward to your elucidations, Danny --- Veni Markovski <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > At 04:25 PM 04.10.2006 '?.'ÿˆö -0400, Milton > Mueller wrote: > >Twomey distances himself and ICANN from the new > JPA. Good. > > Milton, > I guess that doesn't change your opinion, right? > > > > Sincerely, > Veni Markovski __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com