[Privsec] WHOIS: urgent alert for Council members

[karen banks]

hi

i think this refers to the current policy up for review.. (ie, 
recommendation 1) which is here: 
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/index.shtml (somewhere?)

wonder if it's worth asking milton if there's anything we can do to support?

karen

>Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:24:49 -0400
>Sender: Non-Commercial User Constituency <NCUC-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
>From: Milton Mueller <Mueller at SYR.EDU>
>Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS] urgent alert for Council members
>
>The GNSO Council will be discussing the Whois task force recommendation
>1 at the teleconference on Thursday 18 August, 2005 at 12:00 UTC.
>Recommendation 1 calls for "conspicuous notice" to domain name
>registrants about how their Whois data will be used.
>
>This is an urgent notice to our Council representatives to join the
>registrars and other supportive constituencies to DEFER a VOTE on
>Recommendation 1, until Whois is reformed to protect privacy.
>
>Whois Recommendation 1 was originally a good idea. However, Marc
>Rotenberg of EPIC and others have alerted us to serious dangers. Under
>many national laws, notification equals a waiver of one's privacy
>rights. We have confirmed those dangers through filings by the ISP and
>IPC constituencies.
>
>The conclusion of the NCUC WHOIS TF members is that there is no "good
>faith" in this process anymore.  NCUC, ALAC, Registrars and Registries
>wanted to work on the privacy aspects of WHOIS while giving a bit of
>notice to registrants about what happens to their data today.  IPC,
>ISPs and BC, on the other hand, wanted to use notice to have registrants
>waive all privacy rights, and then stop the privacy discussion
>altogether!
>
>We (TF members) ask our Council members to do anything in their power
>to stop a vote on Rec 1 -- send it back to the TF for study of the
>waiver problem, or table it until after the rest of the WHOIS discussion
>under our new
>terms of reference.
>
>**Please work with all your friends on the Council -- and especially
>reach out to the Registry constituency ** --- if you know them or even
>if you don't.  They are the swing vote here.  Their TF members
>understand our concerns.  Please lobby and work with them on
>alternatives to voting on Thursday.
>
>Otherwise, if it has to come to a vote, please vote NO loudly and
>clearly.
>
>
>
>Dr. Milton Mueller
>Syracuse University School of Information Studies
>http://www.digital-convergence.org
>http://www.internetgovernance.org