INVITATION: DISCUSS THE ACCREDITATION AND ACCESS MODEL FOR NON-PUBLIC WHOIS DATA

On Friday 6 April at 1400 UTC, the Business and Intellectual Property Constituencies are hosting a two-hour call to seek further input on a proposed Accreditation and Access Model for Non-Public WHOIS Data.

The goal of the call is to seek additional comment and stakeholder participation in evolving the model for accreditation and access to non-public WHOIS data, which is to be implemented in parallel with ICANN’s Proposed Interim Model for GDPR and other efforts to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

To join this call, please send an email to admin-accred-model@icann.org and you’ll receive instructions for online and phone participation.

Community participation is key, so feel free to distribute this invitation. Please come prepared to discuss the Accreditation and Access Model and comments, and help the community move this initiative forward. Also, please note that the call will be recorded, transcribed, and publicly posted and archived.

The discussion of a potential accreditation model began during ICANN 61 in San Juan and will surely continue after this week, so there will be ongoing opportunities to provide feedback regarding the accreditation model.

This effort is not a GNSO-chartered policy project and is separate from the work of the GNSO’s Policy Development Process Working Group on a Next-Generation Registration Directory Service to Replace WHOIS.

Also, IPC President Brian Winterfeldt just published a blog on CircleID to further publicize the Friday discussion: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20180402_icann_ipc_and_bc_to_host_cross_community_call_to_discuss_whois/