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[ga] [fwd] Informal Whois Briefing at RIPE/Amsterdam (from: MSapiro@verisign.com)
For your information.
Miriam Sapiro of Verisign asked for this announcement to be
distributed to the GA list.
> For those interested in the ongoing development of a Universal Whois
> Service, as required by Appendix W of VeriSign's Registry Agreement with
> ICANN, VeriSign is participating in two working groups at the Jan 14-18,
> 2002, RIPE meeting taking place in Amsterdam. Members of the VeriSign R&D
> team will be attending the CENTR DNR Forum and Database working group
> meetings later in the week to provide an update since the last RIPE
> session, and to seek further input.
>
> The RIPE meeting agenda is available from http://www.ripe.net
>
> If you are not attending RIPE, but will be in the Amsterdam area at that
> time, the VeriSign team would be pleased to meet with you separately --
> please contact Leslie Daigle (ldaigle@verisign.com) to set up a time.
>
>
> * * * * *
> Background:
>
> VeriSign is undertaking development of Universal Whois Service
> that will allow public access and effective use of Whois
> across all Registries and all TLDs, as required by Appendix W of its
> Registry Agreement with ICANN.
>
> VeriSign conducted three formal consultations on the research and
> development effort specified in its Registry Agreement. The first
> consultation was hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on August 15,
> and focused on input from business, intellectual property and law
> enforcement interests. The second consultation was held on November 15,
> and was intended to reach out to the international community attending
> the ICANN Annual Meeting. The third consultation was hosted by the Center
> for Democracy and Technology on November 19, and focused on getting input
> from civil liberties and other NGO groups.
>
> In addition to these formal consultations, VeriSign has held, or plans
> to hold, informal consultations on the margins of key international
> technical meetings for those attendees, including:
> ·
> RIPE - October 3-4, 2001 (DNR Working Group and Database Working Group),
> Prague
> ·
> NANOG - October 23, 2001, Oakland
> ·
> ARIN - October 29-31, Miami
> ·
> RIPE - January 14-19, 2002, Amsterdam
> ·
> APRICOT - March 3-7, 2002, Bangkok (tentative)
>
> We have also set up a website to enable anyone, anywhere, to provide
> input. It can be accessed at http://uwho.verisignlabs.com.
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