Dear All,

Per the ongoing Action Item regarding examples of SSAD urgent requests, after review of the revised text of Rec. 8 and the new recommendation on Urgent SSAD Disclosure Requests https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dde62eeOfCvf6qcbnXoLdYFF4Oum0RN2sz2jBuBm6yw/edit

GAC Reps believe there is no need to further illustrate the categories listed, be it “imminent threat to life”, “serious bodily injury” and “child exploitation”. For reference, the Framework for Registry Operator to Respond to Security Threats refers to these as such: Initial judgment of a request being "High Priority" should be self-evident and require no unique skills in order to determine a public safety nexus. "High Priority" should be considered an imminent threat to human life, critical infrastructure or child exploitation.
Regarding “Critical Infrastructure”, they believe it should be understood as discussed by the GAC reps in the Phase 1 IRT to be along the lines of generally accept definition: Critical infrastructure means the physical and cyber systems that are vital that their incapacity or destruction would have a major detrimental impact on the physical or economic security or public health or safety.

Many Thanks

Chris Lewis-Evans

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