Alan, Thanks for this. A few comments. While this is a good administrative step, we should not have too much optimism on its effectiveness. E-mail is an unreliable notification method. At best, a combination fo DKIM and S/MIME or PGP migh help identify if the sending LEA is really who they pretend to be, but this is not mandated in the submitted motion. Even then, the law of the country in which the registrar is established may not give any legal value to electronic search warrants. Even if it does, it is not guaranteed that what is considered illegal in country A is also illegal in country B. A recent example was the takedown of the rojadirecta.org domain, considered illegal by the DHS is the US, but perfectly legal in Spain, where the registrant is based. What is the risk for the registrar if they do not follow up on a foreign LEA request ? Should they help LEAs from autocratic regimes identify political opponents ? Did the GNSO discuss this or evaluate the cost/benefit ratio of such a measure ? Thank you for pointing out in your reply that the implementation might take a long time, and the concern about resellers. Best regards, Patrick Vande Walle On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:46:40 -0400, Alan Greenberg wrote:
The following motion was just sent to the GNSO
Council list by Tim Ruiz on behalf of the Registrar Stakeholder Group.
I will also forward the reply that I sent to the Council list.
Jean-Jacques is on leave. Hence, I don't have any feedback from his side.