<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi Kathy,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your continued interest in the work being done by this WG, and apologies for the slow response. I am on holiday with my kids at Disneyland Paris right now, and am not regularly checking my email. Being one of several NCSG members who actively participated in this WG, I will try to briefly provide my own personal perception regarding the "thick" Whois PDP WG's initial report. Roy Balleste, Marie-Laure Lemineur and Avri Doria could provide more insight as well, which I would personally appreciate.</div><div><br></div><div>On page 4 of the report, there is a list of 11 topics listed for consideration by the WG's charter. Sub-teams were created for each topic, each with their own mailing list and meeting schedule, independent from the rest of the WG. To my knowledge, NCSG had very little if any contributions to the sub-teams listed apart from the one concerned with "Impact on privacy and data protection" in which we really exerted the majority of our collective effort. However, two submissions were made by NCSG (one by each of the constituencies) in January addressing every one of the topics listed for consideration as each constituency saw fit, and you will find some of those comments reflected in some of the sub-team findings (although not all). Still…, the NCSG initial feedback is on-the-record and can be found <a href="https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=39421016">here</a> for those who would like to go over them, or any of the other statements submitted by other constituencies/SGs and ALAC.</div><div><br></div><div>I do not personally agree with the bottom line recommendation of this report to proceed with a transition of current "thin" registries to "thick", as well as implement this as a rule for all new gTLDs beyond the last round of new gTLDs (which will also all be adopting a "thick" Whois model as per the applicant guidebook). It seemed to me that this was, however, the obvious expected outcome by most of the WG members from the outset of the WG's deliberations and am not surprised by the final outcome.</div><div><br></div><div>I would definitely say though that section 5.5 (starting on page 25) of the report with the findings of the Impact on Data Protection and Privacy sub-team appropriately reflected the concerns we, as NCSG members, expressed (amidst the lack of concern expressed by other folks of course). I personally see more of a noncommercial influence on this part of the report than others. I do have to say that while working on this sub-team, I was pleasantly surprised to find folks from other SGs/constituencies very agreeable in accepting noncommercial concerns, and including them in the sub-team findings. The sub-team coordinator, Don Blumenthal, also did a great job of moderating the discussions that included a lot of debates.</div><div><br></div><div>I generally found the folks from the Registries to be the most on this WG to share common concerns with us in NCSG. I also found it unfortunate that we had so much disagreement on this topic with the folks from At-Large. I personally see a very little difference between the interests of users and those of registrants, especially where Whois and privacy is concerned. It seems that the folks from At-Large don't agree with me. I think that if we would like to make progress on this topic in the future, we should probably work on both those fronts.</div><div><br></div><div>This email is no where near as brief as I intended it to be when I started, but I will close with this; if we do submit a public comment, we might want to focus less on detailing the opinions we have on specific policy issues. We've done this several times already during the course of this WG. I would lean more towards brief overviews on those, with more elaborations on the principles we hold that explain our policy positions. Folks from NCSG who attended the WG meeting in Beijing did a pretty good job of doing that, and I personally appreciated it. I would appreciate input from others on this though.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>Amr</div><br><div><div>On Jun 23, 2013, at 9:40 PM, Kathy Kleiman <<a href="mailto:kathy@KATHYKLEIMAN.COM">kathy@KATHYKLEIMAN.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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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>
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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>
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My and our thanks for all your work in the past, and your work to
come, on this WG!<br>
Kathy<br>
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Public Comment: Thick Whois Initial Report - GNSO Policy
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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 style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; " lang="FR"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/whois/thick-initial-21jun13-en.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span lang="EN-US">Initial Report</span></a></span><span 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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sans-serif; " lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;
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margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span 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',
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" 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><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 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>
<div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;
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sans-serif; " lang="EN-US">Section II: Background: <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">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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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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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>
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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>
<div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;
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margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,
sans-serif; " lang="EN-US">Section III: Document and
Resource Links: <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="FR"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/whois/thick-initial-21jun13-en.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span lang="EN-US">Initial Report on the Thick Whois
Policy Development Process</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; " lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[PDF,
1.21 MB]<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;
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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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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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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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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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