[ALAC] Fwd: Re: RDS Review

Carlton Samuels carlton.samuels at gmail.com
Tue Jan 10 20:36:43 UTC 2017


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On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 5:33 AM, Holly Raiche <h.raiche at internode.on.net>
wrote:

> And what I didn’t add was WHY this issue is so HUGE.
>
> Essentially, the RAA requires that WHOIS information (as defined -
> including registrant’s name, address, contact details etc - see Clause
> 3.3.1 in the 2013 RAA)  be publicly available.  And, as many of you are
> aware - that goes absolutely up against data retention laws in the EU,
> Canada, and many other jurisdictions - which means that registrars are
> either breaking their contract with  ICANN or national data retention
> laws.  Fadi - and the Board - recognised those difficulties and established
> the Expert Working Group (Carlton, for his sins, was a member) that came up
> with proposals to address those difficulties including a concept of making
> only limited information on registrants publicly available, with gated
> access to more layers of information, depending on the status of the
> requestor. And the Board has approved of the RDS WG to work - within its
> charter - through EWG proposals.  So, in that way too truncated recitation
> of the outline of the issues, the RDS WG that ALan, Carlton and I are
> members of, are working through what we do about that fundamental
> contradiction between basic data retention law and ICANN’s RAA.  And trust
> me, there are many interest groups that have had access to that publicly
> available personal information and are not happy at the prospect of losing
> that access.
>
> End result - we are YEARS away from a final policy on who has what access
> to what level of registrant personal information. Which is why i cringe at
> the thought of yet another RDS WG - without a final, agreed policy
> framework on access to registrant data.
>
> And yes, that is only one of the issues raised by Whois.
>
> and what Carlton, Alan and I should be doing is bringing you all in to
> participate in this issue - I promise you, there is plenty of policy work
> for years to come - and I”d love company.
>  BUT PLEASE, not yet another review
>
> Holly
>
> On 9 Jan 2017, at 1:07 pm, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>
> wrote:
>
> > I am attaching a document from the GNSO on the proposed RDS (formerly
> WHOIS) Review to be started very soon.
> >
> > You will recall that we previously had approved a narrowing of the scope
> of the RDS Review to focus just on the extent to which the previous WHOIS
> Review Recommendations had been implemented. This GNSO proposal widens the
> scope considerably. Although there is no question that the wider scope is
> interesting and ptentially useful, it will also require far more community
> involvement that the earlier proposal.
> >
> > The call for volunteers was to close on 13 January and a decision needs
> to be made quickly on exactly what the Review should be.
> >
> > Comments please, with some urgency.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> >> From: "James M. Bladel" <jbladel at godaddy.com>
> >> Subject: Re: RDS Review
> >> Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 17:42:53 +0000
> >>
> >>
> >> Dear Karen and Community Leaders –
> >>
> >> The GNSO Council, working with its component Stakeholder Groups and
> Constituencies, has produced this document (attached), which outlines our
> feedback and concerns with the proposed “limited scope† for the
> upcoming RDS review.  The document was submitted to ICANN Staff, and
> sharing with this team for your reference.
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >>
> >> J.
> >> ----------------
> >> James Bladel
> >> GNSO Chair
> > <GNSO Council feedback on RDS.pdf>______________________
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