SAC055: WHOIS: Blind Men And An Elephant

SAC055 was published on 14 September 2012. All SSAC publications can be found at https://www.icann.org/groups/ssac/documents.

Recommendation	Description	Current Phase
Recommendation 1	The Board should pass a resolution clearly stating the criticality of the development of a registration data policy defining the purpose of domain name registration data.	CLOSED
Recommendation 2	The Board should direct the CEO to create a registration data policy committee that includes the highest levels of executive engagement to develop a registration data policy which defines the purpose of domain name registration data, as described elsewhere in this document.	CLOSED
Recommendation 3	The Board should explicitly defer any other activity (within ICANN's remit) directed at finding a "solution" to "the WHOIS problem" until the registration data policy identified in (1) and (2) has been developed and accepted by the community.	CLOSED
Statement 1	See Section 3 - SSAC Responses to Review Team Recommendations: 12-13 Internationalized Domain Names: Internationalization MUST be supported by default, not called out separately. The focus should be on Recommendation 2 from the IRD-WG final report.	CLOSED
Statement 2	See Section 3 - SSAC Responses to Review Team Recommendations: 5-9 An accuracy policy should define each data element and require that it be examined and indicate for each element a method for determining the level of accuracy of the data.	CLOSED

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