Page History
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- RDS/WHOIS-related Contracted Party Advisories
- Advisory: Clarifications to the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) Whois Accuracy Specification
- Advisory: ICANN Posts Amended Description of 2013 RAA Data Retention Specification Data Elements and Purposes for Collection/Retention
- Advisory: Clarifications to the Registry Agreement, and the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) regarding applicable Registration Data Directory Service (Whois) Specifications
- Advisory: Registrar Implementation of the 2013 RAA's Whois Requirements
- RDS/WHOIS Complaint Handling
- RDS/WHOIS Accuracy Reporting System (ARS) Project
- Pilot Study Report
- ARS Phase 1 Reporting
- ARS Phase 2 Reporting and Full Report
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- WHOIS Review Implementation Reports, including
- WHOIS Review Team Final Report (2012) and Action Plan
- WHOIS Task Force Final Report (2007) [HTML] and [PDF]
- WHOIS Task Force Final Report (2003)
5. WHOIS1 Implementation BriefingsMaterial
- WHOIS1 Implementation Briefings on Recommendations 4, 12, 13, 14: PPT, PDF
- WHOIS1 Implementation Briefings on Recommendations 5, 8, 10, 11: PPT, PDF
- WHOIS1 Implementation Briefings on Recommendations 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 15, 16: PPT, PDF
- Answers to RDS-WHOIS2 Questions on Implementation Briefings
- 2013 Annual Report on WHOIS Improvements
- 2014 Annual Report on WHOIS Improvements
- 2015 Annual Report on WHOIS Improvements
- 2016 Annual Report on WHOIS Improvements
- Implementation report - June 2016
Written implementation briefings - ICANN Org
6. Additional Information
- RDS/WHOIS2-RT: Section 4.6 of ICANN Bylaws
- Affirmation of Commitments (AoC) - superceded by new ICANN Bylaws
- OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data (2013)
- SAC051, Report on Domain Name WHOIS Terminology (2011)
- SAC055, WHOIS: Blind Men And An Elephant (2012)
- Roadmap of WHOIS/RDS Activities:
- Current roadmap (as of June 2017)
- Previous roadmaps
- Ongoing ICANN Organization projects related to data protection and privacy matters
- Inventory of New and Changes Made to WHOIS Policies and Procedures Since the First WHOIS Review Team Completed Its Work in 2012