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[registrars] August 29 Teleconference Minutes on Whois and other topics


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Timothy Denton, BA,BCL
Secretary, ICANN-Registrars Constituency
37 Heney Street
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1N 5V6
www.tmdenton.com
1-613-789-5397 Ottawa
1-819-842-2238 North Hatley
tmdenton@magma.ca
Title: Registrar Constituency Teleconference

Registrar Constituency Teleconference

August 29, 2002, 5pm EDT

 

1. Participants

 

 Registration Tech – Rick Wesson, Chairman

 Melbourne IT – Bruce Tonkin

 PSI-Japan – Robert Connelly

 ENom – Paul Stahura

 Register.com – Brandon Paine

 BulkRegister – Tom d’Alleva

 Corporate Domains - ?

 VeriSign - Bruce Beckwith

 007 Names – Joyce Lin

 Tucows – Ross Rader

 Momentous -Rob Hall

 

Secretary – Timothy Denton

 

2. Next Constituency Teleconference

 

 Thursday Sept 12 9am EDT. Call details will be mailed privately  one week before the call.

 

3. Discussion

 

The discussion was generally concerned with the legal liabilities that may flow in future from inaccuracy of registrant data, and also from the publicly available nature of WHOIS data, which may violate various privacy statutes. Rob Hall mentioned the desire for a “safe harbour” from these liabilities. Brandon Paine asked whether any other industry would tolerate the forced use of its customer data (“Bulk access”). Ross Rader asked rhetorically whether the Whois as currently constituted had outlived its value. There was a clear sense from the discussion that Whois as originally developed by registrars for their purposes had become a tool for various other interests. Rick Wesson asked whether there should be a way for registrars to broker information necessary for their business purposes among themselves, without a Whois as currently constituted.

 

A discussion ensued about the prevention of fraud, which party should have the authorization code, from which no clear conclusion emerged.

 

Rob Hall offered the following categorization of registry models:

Thin – no centralized whois – the com, net, org

Thin with centralized whois – dot info, dot biz

Thick – registry maintains contact with the registrant, e.g. dot ca

4. Work Items

 

  IETF: All registrars were encouraged to involve a staff member in the CRISP working   group. See the CRISP charter for information on how to join the group.  ( http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/crisp-charter.html )

 

Rob Hall (rob@momentous.ca) was asked to develop a paper for presentation to the  ccTLD constituency regarding issues on which we would like to collaborate:  grace periods, deleting domains etc.

 

Rick Wesson ( rick@ar.com ) would like interested parties to contact him about a mechanism for inter-registrar data exchange for verification of whois in a transfer process. The thought was raised to see if we could create a process so registrars would contact a private whois service instead of a public whois at each registrar.

 

 

Timothy Denton

Secretary, ICANN registrars’ constituency

 

 

 



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