Staff Misses Deadline; Council Cancels Call.
The GNSO Council's call for this week has been cancelled. The call's purpose would have been to discuss a staff-manager-prepared summary of constituency statements for the new registry-services PDP. That summary has not yet been sent to the council, but is expected within the next 24 hours, we're told. The council now plans to discuss this report on February 19.
This is turning into an increasingly absurd pattern of staff promises that are then broken. I'm tempted to talk about a systemic failure that began when the new wishful-thinking PDP was adopted during the reform process.
Besides the usual "whois is important" statements, Rick Wesson testified about his fraudit system, and pointed out that registrars have no business incentives to verify contact data supplied to them as long as they are paid. He seemed to suggest that additional lelgislation was needed in order to create such incentives. (I may have mis-heared him on that point, though.)
J Scott Evans repeatedly said that ICANN efforts on WHOIS accuracy were busy discussing procedure, not substance. I wonder how he came to that conclusion -- Task Force 3 is, after all, chaired by a member of the IPC, and (I'm hearing) currently attempting to reach out and collect input on available accuracy verification mechanisms. Outreach seems stalled, though, because relevant contact information is lacking.