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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thank you Amr, for such a long and
      detailed response... and for taking the time amidst vacation. I/we
      will study your words below closely. Have a wonderful vacation!<br>
      <br>
      Kathy<br>
      <br>
       :<br>
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      <div>Hi Kathy,</div>
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      <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
          moz-do-not-send="true"
          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>
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      <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>
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      <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>
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      <div>Thanks.</div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>Amr</div>
      <br>
      <div>
        <div>On Jun 23, 2013, at 9:40 PM, Kathy Kleiman <<a
            moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:kathy@KATHYKLEIMAN.COM">kathy@KATHYKLEIMAN.COM</a>>
          wrote:</div>
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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>
              :<br>
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                <div>Begin forwarded message:</div>
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                      "><b>From: </b></span><span
                      style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Glen
                      de Saint Géry <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                        href="mailto:Glen@icann.org">Glen@icann.org</a>><br>
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                      "><b>Subject: </b></span><span
                      style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[liaison6c]

                        Public Comment: Thick Whois Initial Report -
                        GNSO Policy Development Process</b><br>
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                      22, 2013 12:35:13 AM PDT<br>
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                            Generic Names Supporting 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
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                                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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                            lang="EN-US">Current Status: <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 Policy
                            Development Process (PDP) Working Group 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"><span
                              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[PDF,

                            1.21 MB] and is soliciting community input
                            on the preliminary recommendations contained
                            in the report.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                        <div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;
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                            font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "
                            lang="EN-US">Next Steps: <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">Following
                            review of the public 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>
                        <div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;
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                          0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt;
                            font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "
                            lang="EN-US">Staff Contact: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;
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                            font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "
                            lang="EN-US">Marika Konings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;
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                            font-family: Arial, sans-serif; " lang="FR"><a
                              moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:Policy-staff@icann.org?subject=More%20information%20on%20the%20Thick%20Whois%20Initial%20Report%20%E2%80%93%20GNSO%20Policy%20Development%20Process%20public%20comment%20period"
                              style="color: blue; text-decoration:
                              underline; "><span lang="EN-US">Email
                                Staff Contact</span></a></span><span
                            style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,
                            sans-serif; " lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;
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                              style="font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              Arial, sans-serif; " lang="EN-US">Detailed
                              Information</span></span><span
                            style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,
                            sans-serif; " lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
                        <div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;
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                            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>
                        <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; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom:
                          0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt;
                            font-family: Arial, 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>
                        <ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; " type="disc">
                          <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm;
                            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">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>
                          <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm;
                            margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;
                            margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
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                              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>
                          <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm;
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                              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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                            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;
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                          Roman', serif; "><span style="font-family:
                            Arial, sans-serif; " lang="EN-US">Working
                            Group Workspace -<span
                              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
                            style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "
                            lang="FR"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="https://community.icann.org/x/whgQAg"
                              style="color: blue; text-decoration:
                              underline; "><span lang="EN-US">https://community.icann.org/x/whgQAg</span></a></span><span
                            style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "
                            lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                            font-family: Arial, sans-serif; " lang="FR">Section
                            IV: Additional Information: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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                        <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;
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                          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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                            lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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                            font-family: Arial, sans-serif; " lang="FR">Glen
                            de Saint Géry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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                            font-family: Arial, sans-serif; " lang="FR">GNSO
                            Secretariat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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                              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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                              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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