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Project Status:

  • (tick) Adopted by the Board in February 2020.

  • (star)Implementation ongoing - refer to the implementation page for more information. 

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Background

PURPOSE OF THIS REVIEW?

The Registration Directory Service

Review, formerly known as "WHOIS"

(RDS

-WHOIS2

)

is mandated by ICANN Bylaws Section 4.6(e) to assess the

Review is one of the four Specific Reviews. Under Section 4.6 of the ICANN Bylaws, ICANN is obligated to conduct a "periodic review to assess the effectiveness of the then

current gTLD registry

current gTLD registry directory service and whether its implementation meets the legitimate needs of law enforcement, promoting consumer trust and safeguarding registrant data

.

WHERE ARE WE IN THE PROCESS?                

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MEET THE RDS-WHOIS2 REVIEW TEAM:

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("Directory Service Review").

The RDS-WHOIS2 Review Team

OPPORTUNITIES TO PARTICIPATE:

KEY NEWS AND UPDATES:

Board action on Registration Directory Service Review

(RDS-WHOIS2-RT)

Final Report and RecommendationsOn 25 February 2020, the

produced 22 final recommendations for Board consideration and released its RDS-WHOIS2 Final Report on 3 September 2019. 

The Board took action on each of the 22 recommendations

issued within the RDS-WHOIS2-RT Final Report

, as specified within the scorecard titled "Final RDS-WHOIS2 Recommendations – Board Action 25 February 2020"

. The Board resolved to approve

:

  • 15 recommendations
(
  • were approved in
whole
  • full or in part
), to put
  • .
  • 4 recommendations were placed in pending
, to pass through 2 recommendations (
  • complete. The recommendations are to be considered in light of an impact analysis to be completed after Board action on the Expedited Policy Development Process on Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data (EPDP) Phase 2 recommendations, as appropriate and applicable.
  • 2 recommendations were passed in whole or in part
), and to reject
  • .
  • 2 recommendations
. See full resolution here.
  • were rejected.

See https://www.icann.org/resources/reviews/specific-reviews/whois for more information

Registration Directory Service (RDS-WHOIS2) Review Team Final Report Published For Public Comment

Per the ICANN Bylaws, each final report of a review team shall be published for Public Comment in advance of the Board's consideration. The Public Comment process on the Final Report was started on 8 October 2019 and is expected to close on 25 November  2019. To review the Final Report and provide your feedback, click here.

Final Report and Recommendations submitted to the ICANN Board of Directors

On 3 September 2019, Alan Greenberg, chair of the RDS-WHOIS2 Review team, sent the Final Report and Recommendations for submission to the ICANN Board of Directors. More details here.