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ICANN Committee Creates New Working Group The ICANN GNSO Council considered the WHOIS Task Force's Final Report on WHOIS services at the ICANN meetings in Lisbon this month. Because the proposal endorsed in the Final Report leaves many implementation details unanswered, the Council decided to establish a new working group to examine implementation issues. The group will focus on the endorsed OPoC approach (which removes registrants' mailing addresses, phone and fax numbers and email addresses from the publicly available WHOIS database), and will only return to the alternative proposal mentioned in the Final Report if it cannot sort out the implementation details. (Mar. 31, 2007)
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CIRA retained an outside consultant to develop an implementation strategy for the new WHOIS policy. This strategy was further refined by CIRA. CIRA ... consulted with the public on the key aspects of the implementation strategy and carefully considered the comments received from both the first and second public consultations when developing the implementation plan.
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With the advent of the World Wide Web and especially the loosening up of the Network Solutions monopoly, looking up WHOIS information via the web has become quite common. Most early web-based WHOIS clients were merely front-ends to a command-line client, where the resulting output just got displayed on a webpage with little, if any, clean-up or formatting.
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[T]he OECD Privacy Guidelines provide a well thought-out solution to challenging questions about international consensus on privacy and data protection that directly implicate WHOIS policies and practices. A new task force should be formed to evaluate WHOIS policies and practices with respect to the OECD Privacy Guidelines. See the Privacy Issues Report (pdf), prepared by EPIC, for a more detailed discussion.
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