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Title: WHOIS TASK FORCE PRELIMINARY REPORT


1
WHOIS TASK FORCE PRELIMINARY REPORT
  • ICANN Domain Names Council Meeting
  • March 12, 2002

2
Whois Task Force ...
  • WHOIS TASK FORCE OVERVIEW
  • Committee of the DNSO Names Council was created
    by the NC to
  • Consult with community with regard to
    establishing whether a review of ICANNs WHOIS
    policy is due and if so, to recommend a mechanism
    for such review..

3
The TASK FORCE AND THE SURVEY..AND OUR TIMELINES
  • Among our activities Survey non
    statistical/create common understanding 20
    Questions-English, French, Spanish, Russian,
    Japanese 3035 responses
  • Initial Consultation June August 9 weeks
  • Initial Report - Montevideo, Paul Kane, Chair
  • Task Force Expanded, new co-chairs and new
    participants end of year, 2001
  • Two Part Analysis Quantitative analysis of all
    3035 Narrative assessment of sample of 300 now
    underway. The majority/narrative of the 3035 are
    being read with view to enhance initial
    findings.
  • Preliminary Report in Ghana, focused on
    quantitative and statistical 300.
  • Discussion of what other activities are needed
    for Task Force to formulate recommendations (just
    beginning to outline how to undertake this
    phasebased on learning from Survey)
  • Development of Recommendations, taking into
    account Survey and any other community input
  • Complete narrative evaluation of 300 in
    March/Determine next steps on narrative analysis
    for q.20
  • Conclude statistical findings and develop
    recommendations
  • Publish draft report related to Survey for
    comment by May, take input, incorporate into full
    report
  • Complete draft of report and findings by June
    ICANN meeting TARGET to publish for public
    comment pre JUNE meeting.
  • Finalize report and recommendations by June
  • Present to NC for forwarding to the ICANN Board

4
  • Facts about Respondents
  • Respondents Total 3035
  • Web, Email and Paper
  • English 2759 92.43
  • Japanese 63 2.11
  • French 58 1.94
  • Spanish 57 1.91
  • Russian 48 1.61
  • Note Some surveys returned blank

5
First Impressions
  • Even though a non statistical survey, TF believes
    that the responses generally provide good
    insight
  • LOOK AT AS SNAPSHOT, Remember limitations of
    data.

6
Section I Introduction/History and
Mission/Participation in the Survey
Q.1. Respondent profile
  • commercial
  • individual
  • ISP
  • other
  • noncommercial
  • registrar-registry
  • governmental

2886 Responses
7
Section I, contd
  • On the category of frequency of use of the WHOIS
    database, the responses seem roughly balanced
    into daily/hourly weekly occasionally.
  • Q.4 shows the reasons respondents use WHOIS
  • major categories of use were availability
    responsibility technical and IP. 6 available
    choices other.

8
Section II User Requirements and Experience
  • WHOIS is important to all categories of
    respondents, with a broad theme of who is
    responsiblethe responses then illustrate why
    people are looking for who is responsible e.g.
    availability of name or source spam.
  • In general the respondents found the data
    available through WHOIS adequate 63 support
    searches on other data elements beyond domain
    name analysis still underway.
  • Many narrative respondents expressed concern
    about inaccurate data.

9
Illustrations of Quantitative Responses

9. Please indicate which of the data elements
listed in A-I above are, in your view, valueless,
essential, or desirable Data Element A The na
me of the second-level domain being registered
and the top-level domain it is under
10. Should the publicly accessible WHOIS
database allow for searches on data elements
other than domain name?

2862 Responses
2861 Responses
10
Section III Uniformity and Centralization
  • General Themes Uniformity STRONGLY supported
  • Centralized public access (e.g. portal versus
    centralized data base) strongly supported.
  • WHOIS is important in ccTLDS 54 of 2743
    respondents use WHOIS in ccTLDs and
  • 87 of 2801 think the data elements in .com
    .net .org should be available in ccTLDs.

11
Section IV Resale, Marketing and Bulk Access to
WHOIS Data
  • Important to distinquish between views on
    resale/marketing and BULK
  • ACCESS. Bulk Access is contractually required
    for gTLDs in order to enable competition
  • Resale/Marketing
  • Both quantitative and preliminary narrative
    analysis strongly favor no resale/marketing or
    opt-in quantitative 52 for no 37
  • for opt-in only 9 selected opt-out.
  • Bulk Access
  • Between 62 and 73 want to maintain bulk
    access in gTLD environment AND
  • 65 think it should be extended to other TLDs
    subject to Question 12 data elements in
    .com .net .org should be applicable to
    ccTLDs.

12
Section V Third Party Services
  • Third Party service available to provide
    anonymity only 1039 respondents/3035 of those,
    65 said they did not provide such services
  • Respondents interest in such services
    2365/3035 responded of the respondents, 51
    said no 48 said yes.

13
ICANN Names Council WHOIS Committee ...
  • Marilyn Cade
  • Tim Denton
  • Laurence Djolakian
  • Troy Dow
  • Karen Elizaga
  • Gilbert Estillore Lumantao
  • Bret Fausett
  • Philipp Grabensee
  • Tony Harris
  • Kristy McKee
  • Steve Metalitz
  • Ram Mohan
  • YJ Park
  • Hakikur Rahman
  • Oscar Robles Garay
  • Thomas Roessler
  • Miriam Sapiro
  • Ken Stubbs
  • Abel Wisman

14
Timeline
October 29, 2001 February 2002 Analysis of
narrative responses and discussion of quantitat
ive responses
March 2002 Preliminary Report publish overvie
w of quantitative responses with selected exampl
es
of narrative responses
March 10-14, 2002 Ghana ICANN Meeting Further
discussion

March April 2002 Conclude narrative analysis
finalize quantitative analysis develop prelimi
nary findings

May 2002 Publish draft report for public comment


June 24-28, 2002 Bucharest, Romania Final report

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