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.

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 first 3 studies on 9 Jan.

Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape in the new year.