Dear Councilors,

Please find attached, for your review and discussion, a letter from the co-chairs of the Review of All Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs) Policy Development Process Working Group relating to the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the provision of domain name dispute resolution services under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and the Uniform Rapid Suspension procedure (URS). The letter references and includes an attachment containing relevant provisions of the UDRP and URS Procedures and Rules that may, and in some cases do, involve the use of Whois and personal data in proceedings brought under these processes.

The attachment can also be viewed as a Google Sheet via this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1npMYgAvm9uILCfymewqae_ib6uuqDM_cpBcs3UecHDE/edit?usp=sharing

Please let us know if you have any questions or follow up for the Working Group or its co-chairs.

Thanks and cheers

Mary, Julie & Ariel