Colleagues, see below. The Brussels Roundtable idea is off, but may be revisited after Abu Dhabi. Folks gathering in Brussels for the RDS F2F may hold a separate session. Thank you, J. ----------------- James Bladel GNSO Chair ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Olive <david.olive@icann.org> Date: Sep 22, 2017, 16:18 -0500 To: soac-chairs@icann.org <soac-chairs@icann.org> Cc: Goran Marby <goran.marby@icann.org>, Theresa Swinehart <theresa.swinehart@icann.org> Subject: [soac-chairs] Update on GDPR and Next Steps Dear SO/AC Chairs: I wanted to follow up to my email of September 13th 2017. As I mentioned, we have been exploring organizing a roundtable for the first week of October. Unfortunately, we need to postpone until after ICANN60 due to stakeholder commitments and other meetings in Brussels at the same time. We will come back to you with a proposed date for this meeting as soon as possible. I understand that many of our community are in Brussels anyway the first week in October. I appreciate that some of you may wish to use this opportunity to get together for an “open house” style meeting, allowing you to discuss GDPR and share your updates and new perspectives. If that’s the case, please let us know and ICANN will organize this at our offices on October 5th 2017, including providing some limited funding for the meeting. Please let Diana Middleton (diana.middleton@icann.org)<mailto:diana.middleton@icann.org)> know as soon as possible if you plan to be in Brussels that week anyway and would find such a meeting useful so that we can plan accordingly. In addition, we plan to hold an open webinar for the SO/ACs before ICANN60. The intent of this webinar will be to get your input on the scope of the ICANN organization’s facilitation efforts on GDPR. We are pulling together details on the webinar now and will share more information shortly. We look forward to continuing to work with you and your communities on facilitating a community discussion about GDPR – including the cross-community session at ICANN60. Please communicate your feedback regarding this session to Cyrus Namazi (cyrus.namazi@icann.org)<mailto:cyrus.namazi@icann.org)> who is the senior staff coordinator for this session at ICANN60. Best regards, David David A. Olive Senior Vice President Policy Development Support Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) From: David Olive <david.olive@icann.org> Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 2:34 PM To: "soac-chairs@icann.org" <soac-chairs@icann.org> Cc: Goran Marby <goran.marby@icann.org>, Theresa Swinehart <theresa.swinehart@icann.org> Subject: IMPORTANT REQUEST: Update on GDPR and Next Steps Dear SO/AC Chairs: As you know, the topic of the GDPR is an important one, in particular to the relationship of WHOIS and the GDPR. We’ve undertaken much work to receive input on the user stories, which have been published together with a blog updating on progress to date and next steps. As we engage on the topic and share the user stories, and possible implications of the legislation on existing WHOIS policy, we would like to give the opportunity to the SO and ACs to engage and join in meetings to provide their perspectives. With this, Göran has asked me to invite SO/AC representatives to a roundtable in Brussels to share your perspectives on the topic, and have a direct dialogue with the EC and available DPAs. We are still determining the date for this roundtable in the first week of October. ICANN organization will facilitate but not participate in the roundtable. In preparation, we’d like to invite you, should you wish, to identify 2 representatives from your SO and AC’s, for which we can provide limited travel support, to join for this roundtable. We are also exploring remote participation so others in the ICANN Community can listen to the roundtable discussion. Related, the latest postings including the updated user stories/summary document are listed below and may be of interest: * New blog: https://www.icann.org/news/blog/data-protection-and-privacy-progress-update-... * Updated user stories/summary document https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/gdpr-dataflow-matrix-whois-11sep... (Posted on the gTLD Registration Dataflow Matrix and Information page<https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/gtld-registration-dataflow-matrix-2017-07-24-en>) Please contact me or Theresa Swinehart, and we look forward to following up with you. Best regards, David David A. Olive Senior Vice President Policy Development Support Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)