DRAFT GAC PRINCIPLES ON WHOIS/PRIVACY ============================ A U.S.-led Task Force in ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) released version 3 of its "Whois "Principles" in preparation for the ICANN meeting in Brazil, where it will be debated and finalized. European countries pushed back against U.S. Government efforts to stop ICANN from respecting privacy concerns in its handling of domain name registrant contact data, but their efforts were only partially successful. The current draft contains much that is objectionable, including a very broad definition of the purpose of Whois that is inconsistent with the one adopted by ICANN's policy making Council, the GNSO. Download document here: http://internetgovernance.org/pdf/DraftGACWhoisPrinciples.pdf Dr. Milton Mueller Syracuse University School of Information Studies http://www.digital-convergence.org http://www.internetgovernance.org