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The At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) wishes to convey to the GGNSO Council the ALAC's views on the report prepared by the Whois Study Hypothesis Group, which can be found at following URL: The report to which this Statement pertains may be found at http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/whois-study-hypothesis-group-report-to-council-26aug08.pdf^{Image Removed}.

The ALAC wishes to thank the members of the ALAC community who participated in this statement: Carlton Samuels, Alan Greenberg, Danny Younger, Patrick Vande Walle and anonymous contributors.

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We urge the GNSO to consider a new whois-like service with would provide granular access rights to registrant information and proper auditing of accesses, as well as the support for non-ASCII character sets. In this respect, we draw the attention of the GNSO to the SSAC recommendation expressed in SSAC-033 http://www.icann.org/en/committees/security/sac033.pdf^{Image Removed}.

More generally, the ALAC support the GNSO council's definition of the of the purpose of the whois, as expressed at the GNSO council meeting of 12 April 2006: "The purpose of the gTLD Whois service is to provide information sufficient to contact a responsible party for a particular gTLD domain name who can resolve, or reliably pass on data to a party who can resolve, issues related to the configuration of the records associated with the domain name within a DNS nameserver."

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