Dear EPDP Team:

Under the Team’s current review schedule, no time has been set aside to further discuss purposes and user groups. To that end, we wanted to test a proposed approach to these building blocks as outlined in the list of issues that was shared prior to ICANN66.

User groups:

• Consider whether or not a set of user groups needs to be developed – is this already addressed through the accreditation recommendations?
• If this is considered addressed as a result of the accreditation recommendations, consider the following text:

“The EPDP Team expects that the question of user groups will be addressed through the accreditation policy; specifically, all requestors will need to be accredited, and accreditation will include identity verification, which may include user category/categories.” 

Purposes:

• Consider purpose 2 and the previous agreement: “The EPDP Team agreed to consider at a later stage in the process whether an ICANN purpose for disclosure is necessary and/or desirable”. Has a later stage arrived, or is further time needed? Is this a question to be raised as part of the public comment period on the Initial Report?
• Consider also whether a set of pre-determined purposes needs to be developed that third-party requestors can provide. If this is not deemed necessary at this stage, consider the following text:

“As identified in building block a) criteria and content of requests, each request must include information about the legal rights of the requestor specific to the request and/or specific rationale and/or justification for the request, e.g. What is the basis or reason for the request; Why is it necessary for the requestor to ask for this data? The EPDP Team expects that over time, the entity responsible for receiving requests will be able to identify certain patterns that could result in the development of a preset list of rationales and/or justifications that a requestor can select from, while always maintaining the option for the requestor to provide this information in free form”.

Based on your feedback, the leadership team will determine when to discuss this further or whether the proposed approach has sufficient support to be incorporated in the draft Initial Report.

Please provide feedback by Thursday, 28 November.

Best regards,

Marika, Berry, and Caitlin