[lac-discuss-en] Fwd: ICANN News Alert -- RDS Risk Survey and Webinar: How will a Proposed Next Generation Registration Directory Services (RDS) to Replace Whois Impact You? (Available Until 15 May 2014)

Fri Apr 4 23:14:05 UTC 2014

FYI,

To participate in the Webinar:
Please register via email to alice.jansen at icann.org by Tuesday, 15 April
2014 - 23:59 UTC to receive the dial-in details.

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From: ICANN News Alert <communications at icann.org>
Date: 2014-04-04 19:34 GMT-03:00
Subject: ICANN News Alert -- RDS Risk Survey and Webinar: How will a
Proposed Next Generation Registration Directory Services (RDS) to Replace
Whois Impact You? (Available Until 15 May 2014)
To: fatimacambronero at gmail.com

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

http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-04apr14-en.htm
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RDS Risk Survey and Webinar: How will a Proposed Next Generation
Registration Directory Services (RDS) to Replace Whois Impact You?
(Available Until 15 May 2014)

4 April 2014

The *Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services (EWG)
<https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=40175189>*invites
you to participate in its recently launched Registration Directory
Service (RDS) Risk Survey.

If you provide or use gTLD domain name registration data (today known as
Whois), please consider responding to this survey to share your unique
perspective on potential risks and benefits associated with the EWG's
proposed RDS, should ICANN choose to implement such as system to replace
Whois.

Today, anyone can query Whois to identify the organization or individual
responsible for an Internet domain name, known as a Registrant, along with
their postal address, email address, and telephone number. The EWG was
asked to re-examine the purpose and provision of this information,
envisioning a clean-slate approach to meet global Internet community needs
with greater privacy, accuracy, and accountability. The EWG's proposed next
generation RDS would collect, validate and disclose registration
information for permissible purposes only, with some values remaining
public and others being gated - that is, returned only to authorized users
with legitimate purposes.

At this point, the RDS is simply a proposal being refined by the EWG for
ICANN Board and community consideration. If you are one of the many
different individuals, businesses, and other organizations that consume
Whois data today, or a domain name Registrant, Registrar, or Registry that
provides Whois data today, please participate in this survey. This survey
is a chance to tell the EWG about the risks and benefits that the
recommended RDS might have for YOU.

All risks and benefits identified through this survey will be published in
aggregated, anonymized form and used by the EWG to refine its
recommendations and as input to a full risk assessment.
*RDS Risk Survey attributes:*

   - RDS Risk Survey Availability Date: 15 March 2014
   - RDS Risk Survey address:
   http://www.icann.org/en/groups/other/gtld-directory-services/rds-risk-survey-14mar14-en.htm
   - RDS Risk Survey Close Date: *15 May 2014, 23:59 UTC*

To read more, you may download a printable
PDF<http://www.icann.org/en/groups/other/gtld-directory-services/rds-risk-survey-01apr14-en.pdf>[PDF,
1.93 MB] before returning to
http://www.icann.org/en/groups/other/gtld-directory-services/rds-risk-survey-14mar14-en.htmto
take the on-line survey. Translated versions of this survey will also
be
available shortly.

*To learn more about this survey, please join the EWG for this interactive
online workshop: How will Next Generation Registration Directory Services
impact you?*

*Date:* Wednesday, 16 April 2014
*Time:* 19:00-20:30 UTC (time converter:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=EWG+Workshop+Webinar+-+Session+1&iso=20140416T19&ah=1&am=30
)

*Date:* Thursday, 17 April 2014

*Time:* 12:00-13:30 UTC (time converter:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=EWG+Workshop+Webinar+-+Session+2&iso=20140417T12&ah=1&am=30
)

Additional details on the interactive online workshop are available
here<http://www.icann.org/en/about/learning/webinars/rds-workshop-04apr14-en.htm>
.

You may also learn more about the proposed next generation RDS at any time
by:

   - WATCHING this short introductory
video<https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=40175189>
   - LISTENING to this longer
presentation<http://buenosaires48.icann.org/en/schedule/wed-rds>
   - EXPLORING these
FAQs<http://www.icann.org/en/groups/other/gtld-directory-services/faqs>,
   or
   - READING the EWG's Initial
Report<http://www.icann.org/en/groups/other/gtld-directory-services/initial-report-24jun13-en.pdf>[PDF,
1.70 MB] and Status
   Update Report<http://www.icann.org/en/groups/other/gtld-directory-services/status-update-11nov13-en.pdf>[PDF,
2.26 MB]

*Background*

In December 2012, ICANN announced the creation of an Expert Working Group
(EWG) on next generation gTLD Registration Directory Services, as a first
step in fulfilling the ICANN Board's directive to help redefine the purpose
and provision of gTLD registration data. The EWG's findings are expected to
serve as a foundation to help the GNSO create a new global policy for the
provision of gTLD registration data.

A significant milestone was reached on 24 June
2013<http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-3-24jun13-en.htm>with
the publication
<http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-3-24jun13-en.htm>of
the Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory
Services<http://www.icann.org/en/groups/other/gtld-directory-services>(EWG)'s
Initial Report and FAQs, opening a consultation period with the
ICANN community. The Initial
Report<http://www.icann.org/en/groups/other/gtld-directory-services/initial-report-24jun13-en.pdf>[PDF,
1.70 MB] enumerated the users, purposes, data elements, recommended
principles and features, and proposed model to guide the development of a
next generation Registration Directory Service (RDS) to replace Whois.

Prior to the ICANN Meeting in Buenos Aires, the EWG published its Status
Update Report<http://www.icann.org/en/groups/other/gtld-directory-services/status-update-11nov13-en.pdf>[PDF,
2.26 MB] to highlight the EWG's thinking on these and many other key
issues. It also provides a great deal more detail on the analysis that lay
behind the Initial
Report<http://www.icann.org/en/groups/other/gtld-directory-services/initial-report-24jun13-en.pdf>[PDF,
1.70 MB].
*What's Next?*

The EWG is now completing its research and information gathering phase
before delivering its final recommendations to the ICANN Board. The RDS
Risk Survey is one of several research efforts undertaken being the EWG to
ensure that its final recommendations are supported by facts and informed
by current practices and input from all those potentially impacted by any
next generation system to replace Whois.

The EWG expects to complete its recommendations in 2014, informed by
Community feedback and in-depth analysis of selected areas, including the
responses to this RDS Risk Survey. The EWG plans to deliver its final
report to the ICANN Board in June 2014.
*Questions*

If questions arise about the RDS Risk Survey, please contact us at
Risk-EWG-Survey at icann.org.

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