Thank you YJ.....
With the survey in 5 different languages, (English, French, Spanish,
Russian, Japanese) I anticipate (and hope) many comments will be in the
respondent's native language rather than just english! - we are trying to
remove the language barrier to encourage participation in our WHOIS survey.
Like you I think we all want to ensure we understand all comments correctly
as a consequence we will need additional translation time..... Due to the
complexity and the need to take progressing the issue slowly, we have not yet
set a date for the publication of our final report. At the ICANN meeting
we need to have a WHOIS committee meeting to determine how we should review
the information.
I would like to schedule a meeting of the WHOIS Committee before (and
possibly after - for feedback) the Constituency meetings to discuss the review
process itself.
May I propose we hold our first face to face meeting on THURSDAY 6th
September at 1800 hours. Meet at the Front Reception of the Radisson Hotel.
If any WHOIS Committee member is unable to make that proposed time, please
advise soonest
Best
Paul
"YJ Park (MINC)" wrote:
Paul, It sounds very challenging. Supporting your proposal here I would like
to emphasizethat the access to information needs to be allowed asap,if this
is DNSO responsibilities. As non-native speakers of English, you can
understand Idefinitely need more time to review such enormous info. Thank
you,YJ
First
of all may I thank all Committee members who have responded either
publicly or privately to my earlier mails.
May I seek your support for the following proposal:
- We extend the closure of the Comment Period until the 14th August to
ensure all those who want to participate in this consultation are able
to do so.
- We ask ICANN to make available to the whole community (via the web)
all comments submitted - but not to associate the comments with the
identity of the author.
- All Committee members have access to all the information including
(in confidence) the identity of the author.
- In advance of Montevideo we ask ICANN to tabulate the results of the
survey, including the country of the respondent, as an overview....
please note the survey was not a "poll"... so we may present some
preliminary findings to the ICANN meeting....
- We schedule a face to face meeting whilst in Montevideo of all WHOIS
Committee Members in attendance.... and discuss how we propose to review
the data in light of the our preliminary examination.
FYI, the GAC will be discussing the WHOIS issue/survey at their
Montevideo meeting.
Best regards
Paul
WHOIS Committee Chair