Thick’ Whois PDP Working Group (WG) Charter - ICANN GNSO.pdfVIP

‘Thick’ Whois PDP Working Group (WG) Charter WG Name: ‘Thick’ Whois PDP Working Group Section I: Working Group Identification Chartering GNSO Council Organization(s): Charter Approval Date: Name of WG Chair: Name(s) of Appointed Liaison(s): WG Workspace URL: WG Mailing List: GNSO Council Title: Resolution: Ref # Link: • ‘Thick’ Whois Final Issue Report (/issues/whois/final-report-thick-whois-02feb12- en.pdf) • GNSO Working Group Guidelines (/council/annex- Important Document 1-gnso-wg-guidelines-08apr11-en.pdf) Links: • GNSO PDP Manual (/council/annex-2-pdp- manual-16dec11-en.pdf) • Annex A – GNSO Policy Development Process of the ICANN Bylaws (/en/about/governance/bylaws#AnnexA) Section II: Mission, Purpose, and Deliverables Mission Scope: Background ICANN specifies Whois service requirements through Registry Agreements (RAs) and the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) for the generic top-level domain (gTLD) registries. Registries have historically satisfied their Whois obligations under two different models. The two models are often characterized as “thin” and “thick” Whois registries. This distinction is based on how two distinct sets of data are maintained. WHOIS contains two kinds of data about a domain name; one set of data is associated with the domain name (this information includes data sufficient to identify the sponsoring registrar, status of ~ 1 ~ the registration, creation and expiration dates for each registration, name server data, the last time the record was updat