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I begin to understand why it took ICANN so long in the past to produce the transcripts of its physical meetings. I just had a look at the "dirty" transcript of a WHOIS conference call. "Bark access" (as opposed to bulk access) was just one of the lesser evils introduced by a notetaker who was obviously not familiar with the technical terms and abbreviations used by the task force members. Transcripts of some things I said were just incomprehensible to myself without looking at the notes I was using during the call. [Note that I'm not blaming anyone (except possibly myself for talking too quickly).]

I have prepared summaries of the comments the WHOIS task force has received on the issues of accuracy of WHOIS data (warning: long!), and on bulk access, marketing, resale. The comments on accuracy in particular lead to the identification of a number of concerns with existing policy. I have tried to summarize some of these in a separate document.