AT-LARGE GATEWAY
At-Large Regional Policy Engagement Program (ARPEP)
At-Large Review Implementation Plan Development
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Comment Close Date | Statement Name | Status | Assignee(s) and | Call for Comments | Call for Comments Close | Vote Announcement | Vote Open | Vote Reminder | Vote Close | Date of Submission | Staff Contact and Email | Statement Number | |
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22.10.2013 | Study on Whois Privacy & Proxy Service Abuse | VotingAdopted |
| 30.09.2013 | 10.10.2013 | 14.10.2013 | 14.10.2013 | 20.10.2013 | 21.10.2013 | 22.10.2013 | Mary Wong policy-staff@icann.org | TBCAL-ALAC-ST-1013-01-00-EN |
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The ALAC generally welcomed the many changes to the RAA passed by the Board in 2013. However, the ALAC made two recommendations, the importance of which are underlined by this study.
We supported the development of an accreditation scheme for privacy and proxy services and argued they should only be accredited to the extent they meet all relevant RAA requirements (including accuracy and verification of Whois information for the beneficial user of the domain name). We also said that the new requirements for verification of Whois information should apply not only to registrars (and resellers) but to proxy and privacy service providers as well.
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