There continues to be discussion regarding using the SSAD as a means of "publishing" non-personal data. I believe that this discussion is a distraction that takes focus from what we should be working on. I say this for the following reason. 1. The SSAD does not exist, it may never exist, and if the Board does approve it, it will likely take several years to implement (remember we are 2 years into the implementation of Phase 1, and there is no centralized hardware/software to design and implement for that). 2. Although we specified that anyone may be accredited, it is not at all clear the amount of time it will take, nor what fee might be charged. And unless the system allows accreditation without authenticating the identity, this precludes anonymous queries. 3. We specified that the SSAD must be self-funding and that the users must pay for its operating costs. Are those in favour of using the SSAD for public data publishing proposing fees for such requests, or no fees, and if the latter, who will pay for this usage? 4. There are multiple details of Phase 2 Recommendation 8 for Contracted Party Authorization that simply make no sense in this case, yet are part of the approved policy. And changing that policy requires a PDP. 5. There does not seem to be any benefit of routing public-data requests through the SSAD with its myriad rules, regulations and processes when a vanilla RDAP server will suffice. Alan