[ga] [fwd] Informal Whois Briefing at RIPE/Amsterdam (from: MSapiro@verisign.com)

[Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>]

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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