Dear colleagues, FYI, an update from John Jeffrey on the GDPR issue: https://www.icann.org/news/blog/data-protection-privacy-update-additional-gu... Justine ----- On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 at 07:36, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@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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