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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear NCSG Members of the Thick Whois
WG,<br>
Thank you for your time and efforts on this Working Group. As we
review the initial report, it would help to have your guidance:<br>
- What do you agree with?<br>
- What do you disagree with?<br>
<br>
Feel free to share what you think your victories were (hooray!)
and what you think still needs to be done to make this Initial
Report - and the next steps it urges for GNSO policy - better and
tighter.<br>
<br>
My and our thanks for all your work in the past, and your work to
come, on this WG!<br>
Kathy<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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Organization ("GNSO") Thick Whois Policy Development
Process Working Group tasked with providing the GNSO
Council with a policy recommendation regarding the
use of 'thick' Whois by all gTLD Registries has
published its<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
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style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "
lang="EN-US">[PDF, 1.21 MB] for public comment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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comments received, the Working Group will continue
its deliberations and finalize its report for
submission to the GNSO Council.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-US">Detailed Information</span></span><span
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sans-serif; " lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,
sans-serif; " lang="EN-US">Section I: Description,
Explanation, and Purpose: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;
font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
" lang="EN-US">The Thick Whois PDP WG was tasked to
provide the GNSO Council with 'a policy
recommendation regarding the use of thick Whois by
all gTLD registries, both existing and future'.
Following its analysis of the different issues
outlined in its Charter, including: response
consistency; stability; access to Whois data; impact
on privacy and data protection; cost implications;
synchronization / migration; authoritativeness;
competition in registry services; existing Whois
applications; data escrow, and registrar Port 43
Whois requirements (see section 5 of the Initial
Report), on balance the Working Group concludes that
there are more benefits than disadvantages to
requiring thick Whois for all gTLD registries. As a
result, the Working Group recommends that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;
font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif; "><em><span style="font-family: Arial,
sans-serif; " lang="EN-US">The provision of thick
Whois services should become a requirement for all
gTLD registries, both existing and future.</span></em><span
style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "
lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;
font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
" lang="EN-US">The WG expects numerous benefits as a
result of requiring thick Whois for all gTLD
registries. Nevertheless, the WG recognizes that a
transition of the current thin gTLD registries would
affect over 120 million domain name registrations
and as such it should be carefully prepared and
implemented. In section 7.2 of the Initial Report,
the WG outlines a number of implementation
considerations. In section 7.3 of the Initial Report
the WG also provides other observations that emerged
from this discussion which while not directly
related to the question of thin or thick did and
should receive due consideration by other bodies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
" lang="EN-US">The WG would like to encourage all
interested parties to submit their comments and
suggestions so these can be considered as the WG
continues its deliberations in view of finalizing
its report and recommendations in the next phase of
the policy development process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,
sans-serif; " lang="EN-US">Section II: Background: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
" lang="EN-US">ICANN specifies Whois service
requirements for generic top-level domain (gTLD)
registries through the Registry Agreement (RA) and
the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA).
Registries and registrars satisfy their Whois
obligations using different service models. The two
common models are often characterized as "thin" and
"thick" Whois registries. This distinction is based
on how two distinct sets of data are managed. One
set of data is associated with the domain name, and
a second set of data is associated with the
registrant of the domain name.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif; " lang="EN-US">A
thin registry only stores and manages the
information associated with the domain name. This
set includes data sufficient to identify the
sponsoring registrar, status of the registration,
creation and expiration dates for each
registration, name server data, the last time the
record was updated in its Whois data store, and
the URL for the registrar's Whois service.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif; " lang="EN-US">With
thin registries, registrars manage the second set
of data associated with the registrant of the
domain and provide it via their own Whois
services, as required by Section 3.3 of the RAA
for those domains they sponsor.<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,
sans-serif; " lang="FR">COM and NET are examples
of thin registries.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom:
0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif; " lang="EN-US">Thick
registries maintain and provide both sets of data
(domain name and registrant) via Whois.<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,
sans-serif; " lang="FR">INFO and BIZ are examples
of thick registries.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;
font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
" lang="EN-US">The GNSO Council requested an Issue
Report regarding the use of thick Whois by all gTLD
Registries at its meeting on 22 September 2011. The
Issue Report was expected to 'not only consider a
possible requirement of thick Whois for all
incumbent gTLDs in the context of IRTP, but should
also consider any other positive and/or negative
effects that are likely to occur outside of IRTP
that would need to be taken into account when
deciding whether a requirement of thick Whois for
all incumbent gTLDs would be desirable or not'.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;
font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
" lang="EN-US">Following the delivery of the Final
Issue Report, the GNSO Council initiated a Policy
Development Process at its meeting of 14 March 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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sans-serif; " lang="EN-US">Section III: Document and
Resource Links: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/whois/thick-initial-21jun13-en.pdf"
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lang="EN-US">Initial Report on the Thick Whois
Policy Development Process</span></a></span><span
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lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[PDF,
1.21 MB]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,
sans-serif; " lang="FR">Section IV: Additional
Information: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,
sans-serif; " lang="FR">N/A<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,
sans-serif; " lang="FR">
<hr size="3" width="100%" align="center"></span></div>
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font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
" lang="EN-US">(*) Comments submitted after the
posted Close Date/Time are not guaranteed to be
considered in any final summary, analysis,
reporting, or decision-making that takes place once
this period lapses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,
sans-serif; " lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,
sans-serif; " lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,
sans-serif; " lang="FR">Glen de Saint Géry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,
sans-serif; " lang="FR">GNSO Secretariat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,
sans-serif; " lang="FR"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org"
style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,
sans-serif; " lang="FR"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://gnso.icann.org" style="color: blue;
text-decoration: underline; ">http://gnso.icann.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span
lang="FR"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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