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WHOIS Task Force & Policy Review Team Reports

• WHOIS Task Force Policy Review Team Final Report (20032012)
• WHOIS Task Force Final Report (2007) [HTML] and [PDF]
• WHOIS Policy Review Team Task Force Final Report (20122003)
• Further links to GNSO Closed/Archived WHOIS Policy Work (2001-2011)

Procedure for Handling Conflicts with National Laws

• ICANN Procedure For Handling WHOIS Conflicts with Privacy Law (2008)
• Review of the ICANN Procedure for Handling WHOIS Conflicts with Privacy Law (2014)
• 2013 RAA's Data Retention Specification Waiver and Discussion Document (2014)

WHOIS Studies

• GNSO Council Recommendation on Further Studies of WHOIS (2008)
• WHOIS Misuse Study and Final Study Report (2014)
• WHOIS Registrant Identification Study and Final Study Report (2013)
• WHOIS Privacy and Proxy Services Abuse Study and Final Study Report (2014)
• WHOIS Privacy and Proxy Relay/Reveal Survey and Final Survey ResultsUS GAO Prevalence of False Contact Information for Registered Domain Names Study (2005 (2012)
• NORC WHOIS Accuracy Study (2010)
• NORC Study on the Prevalence of Domain Names Registered Using A Privacy or Proxy Service Among the Top 5 gTLDs (2010)
• US GAO Prevalence of False Contact Information for Registered Domain Names Study (2005)
• Further links to GNSO WHOIS Study announcements and comments (2009-2014)

SSAC Reports

• SAC058, Report on Domain Name Registration Data Validation (2013)
• SAC055, WHOIS: Blind Men and an Elephant (September 2012)
• SAC054, Report on Domain Name Registration Data Model (June 2012)
• SAC051, Report on Domain Name WHOIS Terminology (2011)
  
  

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• 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) and WHOIS Requirements (2013)
• 2014 Registry Agreement (2014)

WHOIS Program Improvement Documents

• Accuracy Reporting System (ARS) Pilot Study Report (2014)
• ICANN Blog: Phase 1 of the ARS
• ARS Phase 1 Validation Criteria (2015)
• WHOIS Information Portal and Consolidated WHOIS Lookup Tool
• WHOIS Primer
• Final Report from the Working Group on Internationalized Registration Data (2015)
• Annual Report on WHOIS Improvements (2014)
• WHOIS Implementation Report (2015)
• ICANN Memorandum to the IRT on Thin to Thick WHOIS Transition - Final Memorandum and Scope (2014-2015)

Related GNSO PDP Reports

• GNSO PDP on Thick WHOIS and Final Report (2013)
• GNSO PDP on Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues (PPSAI) and Final Report (2015)
• GNSO PDP on Translation/Transliteration of Contact Information and Final Report (2015)

GAC Communiques regarding WHOIS

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• Legacy WHOIS protocol (RFC 3912) (2004)
• Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP - RFC 7480) (2015)
• Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP - RFC 5730) (2009)
• Inventory and Analysis of WHOIS Registration Objects (RFC 7485) (2015)

Other Input Documents (summary of Background Documents page, repeated here for completeness) 

• General GNSO Processes & Background
• Board & GNSO Motions
• EWG Final Report, FAQs, and Research (2014)
• EWG RDS Tutorials and Webinars (2014)
• EWG Member Individual Statements and Blogs: (2014)
  
  • Dissenting Report from Stephanie Perrin [PDF, 108 KB] by Stephanie Perrin, EWG Member
  • How to Improve WHOIS Data Accuracy, by Lanre Ajayi, EWG Member
  • Where Do Old Protocols Go To Die?, by Scott Hollenbeck, EWG Member
  • Some Thoughts on the ICANN EWG Recommended Registration Directory Service (RDS), by Rod Rasmussen, EWG Member
  • Building a Better WHOIS for the Individual Registrant, by Carlton Samuels, EWG Member
• EP-WG Process Framework (2015)
• Issue Report & Public Comments (2015)
• WG Charter (2015)
• Affirmation of Commitments (AoC)

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