[Ietf-not43] ICANN imposed fields

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 01:25:47PM -0400,
 Andrew Newton <anewton@ecotroph.net> wrote 
 a message of 89 lines which said:

> It was come to my attention via hearsay that ICANN is going to 
> propose or that somebody is going to propose to ICANN mandatory 
> fields for "whois" services. 

Like Scott noticed, you probably refer to the Interim Report of the
Names Council's WHOIS Task Force
<URL:http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20021015.NCWhoisTF-interim-report.html>,
which contains sentences like:

>The recommendations of the Task Force prioritize the importance of
>WHOIS in the gTLDs, however, the Task Force believes that there is
>merit for users, and we hope mutual benefit to the ccTLDs to
>participate in a process to agree to both uniformity and consistency
>of data elements, and to participate in development and adoption of
>industry standards, as they become available.

You can interpet that as an intent by ICANN to mandate a common
protocol (which should be IETF business, in this WG and others) *and*
to mandate a given schema (which is neither IETF, nor ICANN business).

> is "Last Verified".  I assume this is date/time when contact 
> information has been last verified.

But I see no mention of this specific element in the report (or of any
other element). As often, ICANN just waves things but does not dare to
mandate specific requirments.