[EURO-Discuss] Fwd: ICANN News Alert -- Launch of the Implementation Advisory Group to Review Existing ICANN Procedure for Handling WHOIS Conflicts with Privacy Law

Sat Dec 13 12:33:54 UTC 2014

Dear all,

congratulations to EURALO ALS reps Christopher Wilkinson (ISOC Wallonie)
and Jordi Iparraguirre (ISOC Catalonia) for being part of this advisory
group.
Best regards,

Olivier

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Subject: 	ICANN News Alert -- Launch of the Implementation Advisory
Group to Review Existing ICANN Procedure for Handling WHOIS Conflicts
with Privacy Law
Date: 	Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:43:20 -0500
From: 	ICANN News Alert <communications at icann.org>
Reply-To: 	communications at icann.org
To: 	ocl at gih.com

ICANN News Alert
ICANN <http://www.icann.org/>

    News Alert

https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-12-12-en

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    Launch of the Implementation Advisory Group to Review Existing ICANN
    Procedure for Handling WHOIS Conflicts with Privacy Law

12 December 2014

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Implementation Advisory
Group to Review the Existing ICANN Procedure for Handling WHOIS
Conflicts with Privacy Law (IAG-WHOIS Conflicts). Sixty-one (61)
individuals responded to the Call for Volunteers
<http://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-10-14-en>. IAG-WHOIS
Conflicts is an open group convened to serve for a limited duration and
scope, focusing exclusively on evaluating the ICANN Procedure for
Handling WHOIS Conflicts with Privacy Law
<http://www.icann.org/resources/pages/whois-privacy-conflicts-procedure-2008-01-17-en>
and providing recommendations on possible changes to the Procedure to
the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO.)

We welcome the following volunteers as members of the newly convened
IAG-WHOIS Conflicts:

Tamer Abdallah
Aboyazan Aboyazan
Abdullahi Adhi Gewana
Mona Al Achkar Jabbour
Alyn Andrade
Mark Bayliss
Hela Ben Nejima
Don M. Blumenthal
Gary Campbell
Patrick Charnley
Adrian Cheek
Donna Cunningham
Christian Dawson
Shady El Shafei
Lars-Erik Forsberg
Marianne Georgelin
Allan Ghazi
Ashley Heineman
Raymond Ho
Ismail Hummad
Jordi Iparraguirre
Lazkani Khaled
Tarun Krishnakumar
Taufik Kurniawan
Yuan Lu
Abd Mahmod
Camino Manjon
Steven J. Metalitz
Abdou Mfopa
Don Moody
Manuel Moreno-Torres
Mohamed Mosaad
Basma Nazif
Michele Neylon
Mbabazi Norman
Drew Noyes
Ghislain Nyamfit Ng.
Seun Ojedeji
Chris Pelling
Jonathan Perez
Stephanie Perrin
Elvin Prasad
Adrián Quesada Rodríguez
Mohamed Quriba
Merit Ramses Kamal
Adamantia Rachovitsa
Tariq Rashid
Seth M. Reiss
Mohammed Rezkovic
Carlton Samuels
D. Saravanan
Luc Seufer
Emily Taylor
Bennette Thomas
John WD Thomson
Mbungyuh Tseyah James
Daniel Vidal
Christopher Wilkinson
Ali Yesdel Ibrahim

To track the work of this group, please visit the IAG-WHOIS Conflicts
Wiki
<https://community.icann.org/display/WNLCI/WHOIS+and+national+law+conflicts+IAG+Home>.

      IAG-WHOIS Conflicts Schedule and Operations

The IAG-WHOIS Conflicts is expected to commence its work in January 2015
and produce its recommendations by June 2015.

A kick-off conference call will be scheduled for 7 January.

A schedule of subsequent calls and meetings will be available on the
IAG-WHOIS Conflicts Wiki
<https://community.icann.org/display/WNLCI/IAG-WHOIS+and+Conflicts+Conference+Call+Schedule>.

      IAG-WHOIS Conflicts Mission and Scope

The IAG-WHOIS Conflicts is tasked with providing the GNSO Council
suggestions on how to improve the current Procedure. The The IAG's
mission and scope will focus on changes to the Procedure and not ICANN's
contractual requirements. Any recommendations made by the IAG will be
forwarded to the GNSO Council to determine whether implementation of the
Procedure ought to be changed.

As part of its deliberations, the IAG should, at a minimum, consider the
following issues that were highlighted in the recent Report of Public
Comments on this topic. Those issues include:

  * Process: Should the Procedure be revised to allow for invocation
    prior to contracting?
      o If adopted, how would that alter the contracting process?
      o What parties would be most appropriate to include at this early
        stage of the Procedure?
  * Trigger: What triggers would be appropriate for invoking the Procedure?
      o Would evidence from a data protection authority that the
        contract is in conflict with national laws be sufficient to
        trigger the Procedure? If so, how would ICANN define which data
        protection authority is an acceptable authority? Would the
        authority have to be a nationally representative body? Should a
        regional body's opinion carry the same weight as a national or
        local authority?
      o Similarly, would an official opinion from a government agency
        provide enough evidence? If so, which agencies would be most
        appropriate? Would it have to be an agency tasked with data
        protection? What about a consumer trust bureau or treasury
        department that includes consumer protections in its mandate? Or
        would a foreign ministry provide the best source of information?
        Which bodies would be considered authoritative enough to provide
        a creditable opinion?
      o Would evidence of a conflict from ICANN-provided analysis
        provide sufficient information to invoke the Procedure? What
        type of evidence should this analysis cite?
      o If the Procedure allowed for a written opinion from a nationally
        recognized law firm to provide sufficient evidence for a
        trigger? What types of firms could be considered nationally
        recognized? Should it be accredited or made to prove its
        competency? If so, how? What if ICANN receives contradictory
        opinions from two firms? How is it to determine the more valid
        argument?
  * Public comment: How should public comments be incorporated into the
    Procedure?
      o What role should comments have in ICANN's decision-making process?
      o What length of public comment period is appropriate to ensure
        that the Procedure is completed in a timely fashion?
      o How should comments be analyzed?
      o Should public comments be treated as a safeguard in case a
        decision is flawed?

The IAG shall invite participation in its discussions from other ICANN
Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees, including the GAC.

      Background

ICANN announced a Call for Volunteers for the Implementation Advisory
Group to Review Existing ICANN Procedure for Handling WHOIS Conflicts
with Privacy Laws
<http://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-10-14-en>on 14 October
2014. The call for volunteers followed a paper published 22 May 2014
<http://www.icann.org/public-comments/whois-conflicts-procedure-2014-05-22-en>,
which opened a review process to solicit community feedback on the
Procedure's effectiveness. Based on the comments received in response to
the paper, ICANN convened this IAG in order to explore suggested changes
to the Procedure, which would be forwarded to the GNSO Council for its
consideration.

      Staff contact

Please contact Eleeza Agopian at eleeza.agopian at icann.org
<mailto:eleeza.agopian at icann.org> with any questions.

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