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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Call for RSVPs | Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues Working Group Webinar | 28 May 2015 at 14:00 UTC<u></u><u></u></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">19 May 2015<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please RSVP to </span><a href="mailto:nathalie.peregrine@icann.org" style="color:purple" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">nathalie.peregrine@icann.org</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">.
Remote participation details will be sent the week of 25 May 2015.<u></u><u></u></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please join the interim co-chairs of the Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues Working Group for a one-hour webinar on Thursday 28 May 2015 at 1400 UTC, to hear about the preliminary recommendations that
have now been published for public comment by the Working Group.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This Working Group (WG) was </span><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/raa-pp-charter-22oct13-en.pdf" style="color:purple" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">chartered</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> [PDF,
463 KB] by the GNSO Council in October 2013 to conduct a Policy Development Process (PDP) with the aim of developing policy recommendations to guide ICANN's implementation of an Accreditation Program for privacy and proxy service providers. The topic of privacy
and proxy registrations had been identified upon the conclusion of ICANN's negotiations with the Registrars Stakeholder Group for a new Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) as an issue that remained unresolved and that would be suited for a PDP. The </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/approved-with-specs-2013-09-17-en" style="color:purple" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2013
RAA</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> contains an interim </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/approved-with-specs-2013-09-17-en#privacy-proxy" style="color:purple" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Specification
on Privacy & Proxy Registrations</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> that is due to expire on 1 January 2017.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The WG's Initial Report, containing a number of detailed preliminary recommendations and several open questions for which it is seeking community input, was published for public comment on 5 May 2015. The announcement,
forum for submitting comments, and a copy of the WG's Initial Report can be found here: </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/ppsai-initial-2015-05-05-en" style="color:purple" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://www.icann.org/public-comments/ppsai-initial-2015-05-05-en</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">.
The WG's preliminary recommendations include: (i) requiring that accredited providers expressly include certain mandatory provisions in their customer terms of service; (ii) an obligation to relay initial electronic requests seeking to contact a customer;
(iii) an illustrative framework for the handling of requests from trademark and copyright owners for the disclosure of customer contact information; and (iv) steps regarding provider de-accreditation. Open questions on which the WG has yet to reach consensus
include the escalation of relay requests, how to deal with disclosure requests received from law enforcement and other third parties other than intellectual property rights-holders, and whether domain names associated with online financial transactions should
be able to use privacy or proxy registrations.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This webinar will highlight the WG's preliminary recommendations and open questions, including an opportunity to ask questions of the interim co-chairs. All are welcome; please reply to </span><a href="mailto:nathalie.peregrine@icann.org" style="color:purple" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">nathalie.peregrine@icann.org</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> if
you wish to attend and to receive details about logging on to the webinar.</span></p>
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