Hello, I was reading the notes and there is this action item: Action Item: Council to formally notify the Board of the decision to incorporate authentication as part of the work on Supplemental Recommendations on SSAD and to confirm the urgent request timeline and associated policy language can be published as an update to the Registration Data Policy. In the document on ICANN org Proposed Timeline for Urgent Requests which we (NCSG) provided public comment on, under section 3.9 it says that: “Authenticated Requestor” means a law enforcement requestor or trusted/competent authority that is authenticated through an authentication mechanism implemented pursuant to *ICANN Consensus Policy."* But we are asking the supplemental team to come up with a consensus policy? How are you reconciling the two while supplemental team is not supposed to make new policy? Also sorry I missed this but did we ever discuss the public comments that were received on urgent request timeline? In our NCSG public comment we are clear about two things: we need more clarification on the criteria of urgent request (imminent threat etc) and we do think that for authentication we need a PDP. I have attached our public comment. Now to have a path forward, I suggest the following (have not discussed with NCSG especially number 1): 1. Ask the supplemental review team to address the urgent request timeline and criteria and a few things that need more clarification such as what it means to "respond" to law enforcement. That is not new policymaking in my opinion. We are only interpreting and clarifying the criteria and we will discuss human rights impact as well. 2. Discuss how to go about authentication in a way that the supplemental team does not come up with new policy. I know doing an EPDP is a lot of work but I just can't see any other way. Maybe we can have more suggestions by the staff on how to do the authentication piece quickly. We have mentioned in our public comment why we think a PDP on authentication is necessary. But if there are other ways to address our concerns then would love to hear them. Best regards, Farzaneh