RE: [council] Registrant Representation in WHOIS Workshop

["Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au>]

Hello All,

I agree that Jeff Neuman would be an appropriate speaker on a thick
registry WHOIS at both the gtld and cctld level
(.biz, .us, and .cn).

If Jeff is not available, try Ram Mohan from Afilias (.info and .org).

Remember that the purpose of the WHOIS workshops at Montreal is to
present information - it is not to determine a policy solution.   

Right now we require representatives from each of the constituencies to
the GNSO WHOIS Privacy steering group.  I haven't seen any nominated
yet.

The policy development process (PDP) will provide ample opportunity for
each constituency and individual to present possible policy solutions.

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Milton Mueller [mailto:Mueller@syr.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, 12 June 2003 2:47 AM
> To: mcade@att.com; council@dnso.org; Jeff.Neuman@Neustar.us
> Cc: mmr@darwin.ptvy.ca.us; sabine@denic.de; tom@schlund.de
> Subject: RE: [council] Registrant Representation in WHOIS Workshop
> 
> 
> If Jeff is too shy to nominate himself for a slot, I will; or 
> at least, move to allow the registries to put forward someone 
> to address the technical and business costs of various policy 
> alternatives. 
> 
> That information is crucial. 
> 
> It would be better if there were a well-known independent expert 
> in the technology/economics of registries; as Marilyn and I 
> know from telecom policy debates, intra-industry haggling 
> over the costs assigned to regulatory requirements can go on 
> forever. However, people like me who have done cost/economic 
> studies of the domain name industry have not had access to 
> commercially 
> sensitive business data, so analysis has had to stay at a more 
> abstract level. And there are lots of good technical people but 
> they may not know the economics. So we may need an industry 
> insider, and just be mindful of the bias potential. 
> 
> >>> "Neuman, Jeff" <Jeff.Neuman@Neustar.us> 06/11/03 12:21PM >>>
> Often times, courts have
> ordered registries to do things that are beyond their 
> technical and legal capabilities with respect to Whois (and 
> UDRP as well).  We believe that this may stems from a lack of 
> understanding about the roles and capabilities of the 
> registries (especially the thick registries).
> 
> 
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