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<p class="title">ICANN Opens Comment Period on Revised Telnic Contract Amendment</p>
<p class="docdate">19 October 2007</p>
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ICANN is opening a public comment period on revised contract changes to alter
the terms for the public display of Whois information in the .TEL Registry Agreement.
A comment period on the Telnic proposal was initially conducted from 11 May 2007
through 28 June 2007. Following the ICANN meeting in San Juan, ICANN and Telnic
engaged in ongoing discussions to reach resolution of Telnic's Whois proposal.
Based on input received from the community, ICANN and Telnic discussed the proposed
contract changes and Telnic significantly amended its original proposal. In addition,
ICANN is engaged in consultations with the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office
to understand the reported conflict between UK Privacy Law and the requirements
of the ICANN registry agreement with Telnic.
<p>The revised proposal includes an amendment to Appendix S, Part VI of the .TEL
Registry Agreement. Under the revised proposal, Telnic will continue to publish
full Whois information for legal persons. Telnic will collect from registrars
full Whois information for natural persons, but only limited information will
be displayed. Requestors seeking full contact information for natural persons
may use a secure Special Access Service to obtain non-public data.</p>
<p>A copy of the proposed amendment to Appendix S is available at <a href="http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/tel/appendix-s-19oct07.pdf">http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/tel/appendix-s-19oct07.pdf</a> [PDF, 77K], and a copy of the proposed amendment to the .TEL Registry Agreement
is available at <a href="http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/tel/proposed-amendment-19oct07.pdf">http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/tel/proposed-amendment-19oct07.pdf</a><br>
[PDF, 25K]. Comments on the revised contract amendments may be submitted to
<a href="mailto:telnic-whois-proposal@icann.org">telnic-whois-proposal@icann.org</a> until 10 November 2007 23:59 UTC and may be
viewed at <a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/telnic-whois-proposal/">http://forum.icann.org/lists/telnic-whois-proposal/</a>. All documentation
regarding this proposed contract change and corresponding comment forum has
been previously posted as part of the Registry Services Evaluation Process
at <a href="http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/#2007004">http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/#2007004</a>. The previous comment period
can be viewed at <a href="http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-07jun07.htm">http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-07jun07.htm</a>.</p>
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