[ga] Whois Consultation

[DannyYounger@cs.com]

I have been asked by Miriam Sapiro to forward this message to the General 
Assembly:

Invitation to Whois Consultation

VeriSign invites you to participate in a meeting to discuss development of a 
Universal Whois Service
that will allow public access and effective use of Whois across all 
Registries and TLDs
(As specified in Appendix W of its Registry Agreement)

Date:  Thursday, November 15, 2001
Time:  Immediately following the ICANN Board Meeting
(Likely 6 - 7:30pm)
Place:  Catalina Room, Marina Beach Marriott, Marina Del Ray, CA

If you have specific suggestions for the type of research and development 
project that VeriSign should undertake, please come prepared to make a 
five-minute presentation. 
Thank you for your interest and participation.

Please RSVP to Sarah Daisy Splitt ssplitt@verisign.com

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Please Note:  This is the second of three consultations that VeriSign is 
holding to solicit participation in this research and development effort 
specified in its Registry Agreement.  The first meeting was held in 
Washington, DC in August and focused on input from business, intellectual 
property and law enforcement interests.  The November 15 consultation is 
designed to reach out to the international community.  As a result of 
increased concerns by some about travel and security, and our belief that 
many of the people who would have wanted to attend a consultation overseas 
will already be in Marina Del Ray, we have decided against holding a separate 
meeting in Europe, Asia or elsewhere.  We are instead scheduling the 
international consultation to begin immediately after the close of the 
November ICANN meeting in Marina Del Ray.  

The third consultation will focus on input from civil liberties groups and be 
hosted by the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington, DC on 
November 19.   More details will be forthcoming shortly.  All of these 
consultations are open to anyone who would like to participate.  

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 (tentative)
·   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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