[db-wg] [dns-wg] Meanwhile, at ICANN...

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> On 6 Jan 2016, at 08:03, Shane Kerr <shane at time-travellers.org> wrote:
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> Not necessarily RIPE Database related, but I thought I'd point out that
> ICANN is considering replacing WHOIS for gTLD:
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> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-01-04-en

Hi Shane. I think you’re grossly overstating things.

IMO a call for volunteers to "serve on a PDPWorking Group to establish a policy framework for a next-generation gTLD Registration Directory Service” — whatever these things might be — is unlikely to amount to anything, even by ICANN’s dismal record on whois matters.

By all means watch the never-ending whois food fights at ICANN. But don’t expect any sort of constructive or useful outcome.