Dear EPDP Team members, As you may recall, ICANN org presented<https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=155191075> its study entitled Differentiation between Legal and Natural Persons in Domain Name Registration Data Directory Services (RDDS)<https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-epdp-team/attachments/20200708/5f72ece1/...> to the EPDP Phase 2A team on 26 January 2021. During its presentation, ICANN org responded to questions submitted by the Phase 2A team, one of which (quoted below) dealt with differentiation between natural and legal persons by ccTLD operators in the European Union as well as how legal and natural person data is handled in different types of registries. Question: “SSAC has previously noted important deficiencies in the ICANN study ‘Differentiation between Legal and Natural Persons in Domain Name Registration Data Directory Services (RDDS).’ Those deficiencies need to be cured. As stated in SAC112: “The research report did not look at some of the most relevant and obvious examples, such as how and why natural and legal person data is collected and published in real estate registries, company registries, and trademark registries inside the EU; and how such registries outside the EU handle the data of subjects who reside in the EU. While the report stated that ‘most EU ccTLD operators continue to publish some (and sometimes all) contact data fields for domains registered by legal persons,’ the report did not provide the details, such as a list of which ccTLDs publish what data.”[1] ICANN org has investigated these questions further, and attached are two documents in response: 1. Overview/summary of additional research conducted by ICANN org 2. Detailed appendix of findings related to differentiation of legal and natural person data by European/EU ccTLD operators Please do not hesitate to reach out to us with any questions regarding these. Thank you, ________________________________ ________________________________ [1] See: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-112-en.pdf.