[ga] Whois Forum, Washington 11/19

[Rob Courtney <rob@cdt.org>]

VeriSign and the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)
invite you to participate in a meeting
to discuss development of a Universal Whois Service
across Registries and TLDs
(As specified in Appendix W of VeriSign's Registry Agreement)

Date:  Monday, November 19, 2001
Time:  2:30 - 4:00pm
Place:  CDT, 1634 I St, NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC

  If you have specific thoughts about the type of R&D needed to meet
the requirements for a Universal Whois Service and would like to
present them, please indicate that when you RSVP and come prepared to
make a one-to-five minute presentation.
Thank you for your interest and participation.

Please RSVP to Sarah Daisy Splitt ssplitt@verisign.com

(See attached)

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Please Note:  This is the third of three formal consultations that
VeriSign is holding to solicit participation in the Whois research
and development effort specified in its Registry Agreement.  The
first meeting was held in Washington, DC on August 15 and focused on
input from business, intellectual property and law enforcement
interests.  The second consultation is designed to reach out to the
international community attending the ICANN meeting in LA and will
take place on November 15.  This third consultation will focus on
input from non-governmental organizations and groups operating in the
public interest and will be hosted by the Center for Democracy and
Technology on November 19. 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)

VeriSign has also set up a website to enable anyone, anywhere, to
provide input.  It can be accessed at http://uwho.verisignlabs.com.

Whois_forum_11.19.01.doc

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Rob Courtney
Policy Analyst
Center for Democracy & Technology
1634 Eye Street NW, Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20006
202 637 9800
fax 202 637 0968
rob@cdt.org
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