[Ecommerce] 11/29 ICANN's Whois questions conference in Vanvouver

[Manon Ress]

Privacy Conference "Building Bridges on ICANN's Whois Questions,"
Tuesday, 11/29, 2:30-6PM in the ICANN main conference hotel in
Vancouver.

Formatted file at http://www.ncdnhc.org/Privacy-Conference.pdf.  Text
below.

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Privacy Conference:  Building Bridges on ICANN=92s Whois Questions
Sponsors:  Noncommercial Users Constituency, The Public Interest
Registry, The Registry Constituency and Cole, Raywid & Braverman LLP

Vancouver ICANN Meeting, The Westin Bayshore Hotel
Tuesday, November 29th,  2:30 PM =96 6:00 PM
Stanley Park Ballroom 3 (The =93wwTLD Meeting Room=94)

Agenda

Keynote Speaker:  Commissioner Heather H. Black, Assistant Privacy
Commissioner of Canada

Session I:  Coming into Compliance:  ccTLDs Change Their Whois Databases
This session profiles ccTLDs on three continents who have changed
their Whois procedures (or are in the midst of changing them) based
on national data protection laws.  What are the changes?  How are
they working?  How do they allow personal data to be made available
to those who need it?  (This session will feature considerable time
for questions and discussion with the audience.)
Speakers:
Kim von Arx, General Counsel and Director of Policy Development,
Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA)
Lesley Cowley, Chief Executive, Nominet UK
Yumi Ohashi, Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. (JPRS) (invited)

Session II:  Experts on Other Areas of Telecommunications and
Internet Privacy
The Whois debate takes place within the larger context of
telecommunications and Internet privacy, but in the ICANN community
we rarely refer to outside models.  How do telephone companies, ISPs
and others handle requests for personal data, including chatroom and
email identities?  What do these models offer in our work on the
Whois questions?
Speakers:
Drew McArthur, Drew McArthur, Vice President Corporate Affairs and
Privacy Officer, TELUS Communications Inc.
Christopher Savage, Esq., Head of Telecom and Internet Practice,
Cole, Raywid & Braverman LLP

Session III:  Ideas for the Future of the gTLD Whois Databases:  Some
Proposals for Reform
     Registries, Registrar and Noncommercial Users Constituency
recently put forward different plans to change the gTLD Whois
Database to provide protection for domain name registrant data.  For
the first time in a public forum, they will present and discuss their
proposals. The US Federal Trade Commission's International Division
of Consumer Protection will present concerns with change.  (This
session also will feature considerable time for questions and
discussion with the audience.)
Speakers:
David W. Maher, Esq., Sr. VP-Law & Policy, Public Interest Registry
(Registry Constituency)
Marcus B. Heyder, Legal Advisor for International Consumer
Protection, US Federal Trade Commission
Kathryn Kleiman, Esq., Internet Law & Policy Specialist, McLeod,
Watkinson & Miller (Noncommercial Users Constituency
Ross Rader, Director, Research & Innovation, Tucows Inc. (Registrar
Constituency)

Open to All!