[APAC-Discuss] [ALAC-Announce] Call for comments

Justine Chew justine.chew at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 02:46:58 UTC 2018


Dear colleagues,

FYI, an update from John Jeffrey on the GDPR issue:
https://www.icann.org/news/blog/data-protection-privacy-update-additional-guidance-from-the-european-data-protection-board

Justine
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 at 07:36, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>
wrote:

> As I hope you are all aware, due to the European General Data
> Protection Regulations (GDPR), access to some gTLD Domain Name
> registrant information (WHOIS) is being restricted. Traditionally,
> for a registrant who did not use a proxy service a WHOIS Query would
> reveal their full name, address, phone number and e-mail address. If
> you do a lookup for one of my addresses today you will see almost
> nothing! Try looking up alangreenberg.org at https://whois.icann.org.
>
> This increases privacy for some registrants and also makes
> information harder to access for those who currently use WHOIS.
>
> There are serious monetary fines associated with GDPR, so compliance
> is important.
>
> In addressing the new regulations, there has been a lot of discussion
> within ICANN over the last year. A GNSO Policy Development Process
> (PDP) started about 2 years ago which should have provided a new
> system (now called a Registration Directory Service (RDS) instead of
> WHOIS), but unfortunately that process has not completed in sufficient
> time.
>
> As a result, to meet the GDPR deadline of 25 May 2018, the ICANN
> Board implemented a Temporary Specification Policy to allow us and
> our contracted parties (Registrars and Registries) to be
> GDPR-compliant. That temporary policy must be replaced by a permanent
> one within one year - a VERY short time for ICANN policy development.
>
> The GNSO is starting an Expedited PDP which can complete faster than
> a regular PDP. The ALAC is being given two Members in the this group.
> We need to establish what our guiding principles are.
>
> Please visit https://community.icann.org/x/_YlHBQ, read what others
> think, and contribute your thoughts on what positions we should be taking.
>
> Alan
>
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