<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>Read it and weep...</div><div><br></div>Begin forwarded message:<br><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Margie Milam <<a href="mailto:Margie.Milam@icann.org">Margie.Milam@icann.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>[Soac-infoalert] WHOIS Accuracy Pilot Study Preliminary Findings</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">October 10, 2014 at 8:16:41 PM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">"<a href="mailto:soac-infoalert@icann.org">soac-infoalert@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:soac-infoalert@icann.org">soac-infoalert@icann.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Matt Ashtiani <<a href="mailto:matt.ashtiani@icann.org">matt.ashtiani@icann.org</a>>, Margie Milam <<a href="mailto:Margie.Milam@icann.org">Margie.Milam@icann.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Dear All,</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I am pleased to inform you that ICANN has<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://goo.gl/UqPHSy" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">published a Paper</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>describing the Preliminary Findings from a Pilot Study on WHOIS accuracy conducted by National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. </span><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The purpose of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://goo.gl/UqPHSy" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">the Paper</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is to demonstrate how ICANN’s WHOIS Accuracy Reporting System (ARS) is being designed, the topic of which will be discussed during the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style=""><a href="http://la51.icann.org/en/schedule/mon-whois" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(11, 76, 180);">All Things WHOIS Session</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on Monday. The ARS, when fully developed, will produce periodic accuracy reports to enable interested parties to track whether policy changes or changing contract terms produce measurable improvements in accuracy. For more information, please see the related<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-10-10-en" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(11, 76, 180);">Announcement</span></a>.</span><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">If your SO/AC would like a briefing on the Pilot Study while in Los Angeles meeting, please let me know and I will be happy to arrange one for you with NORC’s lead statistician. Alternatively, if your SO/AC would like a briefing following the Los Angeles meeting, I would also be happy to arrange one with your group.</span><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sincerely,</span><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Margie Milam</span><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="">Senior Director- Strategic Initiatives<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="">ICANN<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>soac-infoalert mailing list<br><a href="mailto:soac-infoalert@icann.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">soac-infoalert@icann.org</a><br><a href="https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/soac-infoalert" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/soac-infoalert</a></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>