b. Stability

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From the Charter:

Stability: in the event of a Registrar business or technical failure, it could be beneficial to ICANN and registrants to have the full set of domain registration contact data stored by four organizations (the Registry, the Registry's escrow agent, the Registrar, and the Registrar's escrow agent), which would be the case in a ‘thick’ registry.

Information relevant to this subject that will assist the WG to make a determination whether for this particular topic 'thick' Whois would be beneficial or not: