Bob: Without speaking for other service providers, there are currently ~4 million subscribers to our affiliated privacy service. Just under half of those indicate that they are a corporation or business. We employ a team of full-time employees working continuously to detect and terminate bad actors, and their estimates indicate the rate of abuse on our services is less than 1% of all domains. But even allowing for the hypothetical possibility that, at any given moment, there are bad actors have not yet been exposed, then we could generously allow that the true rate of abuse is double that amount, or 2% of all domains. Unless you have some factual basis for your claim that the legitimate users are in the minority (meaning our service is harboring over 2 million criminals and 1 million criminal organizations), then I recommend you walk back some of that rhetoric. You and your organization are focused on the bad actors operating on the Internet. This is a noble cause, but it has skewed your perspective on the actual scope of criminal/absuive users. Thanks‹ J. On 2/6/14, 8:28 , "Bob Bruen" <bruen@coldrain.net> wrote:
Hi Volker,
Agreed, but the distortion cannot be ignored. If we stopped doing things because of problems, we not drive cars, fly airplanes, or probably walk down a street. However, we have safety procedures in place for airplanes, we force people to learn how to drive cars and we have police departments to enforce public safety.
Usually in these circumstances, the problems are in the minority, whereas in the privacy/protection space, it is inverted.
-bob
On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Volker Greimann wrote:
And yet we should not let the bad apples dictate what services should or shouldn't be available for those who have a legitimate need. Legitimate need is just that: legitimate...
Volker
I am in agreement with you. Based on years of practical experience, the bad actors far outnumber those who have a legitimate need for anonimity.
--bob
On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Campillos Gonzalez, Gema Maria wrote:
How far apart we are in this! As a provider offering that option (reveal or abandon), it will attract political dissidents, persecuted religious minorities, whistleblowers... but it must be aware that it is luring into the service many wrongdoers, confidence tricksters, IPR pirate sites, illegal gambling sites, child abusers, malware distributors and the like. I´m not so sure it could claim it is not actively contributing to unlawful activity. But´s that another story.
My point is that the mere possibility of offering that option damps the ability of public authorities to protect public interests and could be against the law. If, as most of you believe, the provider should only process requests coming from a LEA within their jurisdiction, requests aimed at dissidents, religious leaders ... would be stopped there.
I´ve discovered only yesterday that IP providers and hosting services are acting sometimes as proxies for the real hosting service. So, the business thrives and diversifies to the despair of LEAs.
Kind regards,
Gema
-----Mensaje original----- De: Wendy Seltzer [mailto:wendy@seltzer.com] Enviado el: miércoles, 05 de febrero de 2014 16:19 Para: Michele Neylon - Blacknight; Volker Greimann; Campillos Gonzalez, Gema Maria; Tim Ruiz; gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg@icann.org Asunto: Re: [Gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg] PPSAI Work Plan
On 02/05/2014 09:40 AM, Michele Neylon - Blacknight wrote: Volker
Yeah - that's something I was very conscious of when we discussed this in the EWG Simply pulling the service might not be enough to protect you as a provider .. and forcing all providers into that kind of situation seemed unreasonable . .
That's not universally true in the law. I'd argue that under US law, there's no liability on a provider of domain registry services who does not encourage or knowingly contribute to unlawful activity. [long discussion of secondary liability elsewhere, including in past discussions of the legal absurdity of 3.7.7.3 ]
So providers should be permitted to take that view.
--Wendy
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-----Original Message----- From: gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg-bounces@icann.org [mailto:gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Volker Greimann Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 1:49 PM To: Wendy Seltzer; Campillos Gonzalez, Gema Maria; Tim Ruiz; gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg@icann.org Subject: Re: [Gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg] PPSAI Work Plan
While I understand this concern from a privacy standpoint, as a service provider this is problematic as one needs to be able to point to the responsible party in case of legal violations in order to avoid culpability and liability.
Volker
Dear Wendy, Tim, Volker and Group,
As regards the last paragraph on Wendy´s message...
I've proposed that registrants be offered the choice between potential reveal and potential termination of registration (that choice could be offered up-front at the time of registration, or at the time of the identification request). For some registrants, such as legitimate whistleblowers whose anonymity for fear of retaliation is more important than the persistence of their domain identifier, this choice may be important. I hope we're at least leaving the opportunity for a compliant service to offer an "unidentified de-registration" option, even though we don't need to mandate it for all.
I have deep concerns with offering such a service. If the P&P service receives a request to reveal the identity and contact data of the registrant, I doubt it can refuse to relay them on account of the de-registration of the domain name (which should be done through the registrar). If the request comes from an individual or organization holding a legitimate interest, there may be situations in which they would still be entitled to get those data (I´m thinking of a prospective file suit or extrajudicial request for redress). But, let us discuss thoroughly at the appropriate time in the Work Plan.
I believe it should be legitimate to offer a service that has no possibility of identifying the registrant. Instead, it has other accountability, namely that the domain name stops resolving upon receipt of a legitimate complaint. That's the tradeoff I propose, that there be some situations in which it is by design impossible to get the identification of the registrant, but it's also impossible to keep the name in the face of a complaint.
--Wendy
Regards,
Gema
-----Mensaje original----- De: gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg-bounces@icann.org
[mailto:gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg-bounces@icann.org] En nombre de Tim Ruiz Enviado el: martes, 04 de febrero de 2014 16:58 Para: Wendy Seltzer; Volker Greimann; gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg@icann.org Asunto: Re: [Gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg] PPSAI Work Plan
Wendy, I believe Kathy made sure that was captured in our call today. ________________________________________ From:
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On 01/30/2014 09:13 AM, Volker Greimann wrote: Hi Gema,
One note to Main issue 3 as it is proposed: This assumes that the provider has that kind of access or ability. In many cases, the privacy service just allows for the provision of its data and acts as a forwarding service. In the case of the provider affiliated with us, the provider has one ability only: Request the removal of its data from the whois. Other privacy services may have even less influence over the registration-
So requiring a takedown or disabling/terminating the registrants' access may not be something that a privacy or proxy service provider is set up to do, depending on how he is integrated with the registrar/reseller/registrant. In the past we have always talked about relay and reveal. These are the main opptions every provider should have in my opinion. Anything beyond that may not be feasible and may not even be in the remit of the provider.
If we're considering what should be required of services under a new proposed accreditation regime, then we should be prepared to think of what the system should have, not just what it can currently accommodate.
I've proposed that registrants be offered the choice between potential reveal and potential termination of registration (that choice could be offered up-front at the time of registration, or at the time of the identification request). For some registrants, such as legitimate whistleblowers whose anonymity for fear of retaliation is more important than the persistence of their domain identifier, this choice may be important. I hope we're at least leaving the opportunity for a compliant service to offer an "unidentified de-registration" option, even though we don't need to mandate it for all.
--Wendy
Volker
Am 30.01.2014 13:09, schrieb Campillos Gonzalez, Gema Maria: Dear Group,
I have worked on the PPSAI Charter Questions Grouping and here you have the result.
Best regards,
Gema Campillos
Deputy Director of Information Society Services
Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Information Society
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[mailto:gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg-bounces@icann.org] *En nombre de *Mary Wong *Enviado el:* miércoles, 29 de enero de 2014 16:57 *Para:*
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Dear Don, Jim and everyone,
One of the various items for consideration in developing the WG's Work Plan will involve the planned timing of deliverables relating to each category of questions (however many there ultimately are or whether each category is tackled by a different sub-team). The WG may wish to consider, for example, whether certain questions/categories need to be addressed before others.
Hopefully our next iteration of the Mind Map and proposed timeline/work plan will assist the WG in discussing Jim's suggestions, which reflects the methodology used in a couple of other WGs (and it is good to know that your team felt the IGO-INGO WG experience was productive and helpful, Jim!). The work plan is likely change over time depending on the nature and outcome of the WG (or sub-team) discussions, and as Jim notes certain categories (e.g. Main Issues) may be more organic than others.
Should the WG decide to proceed via sub-teams, another thing to consider would be ensuring that the work is spread evenly across the WG rather than have a small group of people spread across various sub-teams (especially if the deliverables from those are due in short order!).
I hope these thoughts are useful. To assist with your review of Jim's suggestions, I attach an updated version of Jim's document which adds the threshold question for Section III discussed on the call yesterday (using Steve's suggested wording) and with a couple of comments inserted to help provide context to one or two sub-questions that Kathy had asked about.
Thanks and cheers
Mary
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*From: *Don Blumenthal <dblumenthal@pir.org <mailto:dblumenthal@pir.org>> *Date: *Wednesday, January 29, 2014 9:45 AM *To: *Jim Bikoff <jbikoff@sgbdc.com
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Jim,
Thanks very much for all the work you put in on this. I am very anxious to see the group's thoughts on it. I will reserve mine for now except to note that reviewing seven reports each week is inducing cold sweats already. :)
I will note up front though that apart from process
considerations, staff support availability will have to be part of our work plan decisions.
Best,
Don
*From: *Jim Bikoff <jbikoff@sgbdc.com
<mailto:jbikoff@sgbdc.com<mailto:jbikoff@sgbdc.com%20<mailto:jbikoff@sgbd c.com>>> *Date: *Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 6:04 PM *To: *Don Blumenthal <dblumenthal@pir.org
<mailto:dblumenthal@pir.org>>, PPSAI <gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg@icann.org
<mailto:gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg@icann.org>> *Subject: *PPSAI Work Plan
Dear Don,
As you indicated, a Work Plan should help guide our Group's efforts over the upcoming weeks. We have some suggestions, based on our positive experience in the IGO/INGO PDP Working Group.
Please give us the benefit of your thoughts on the following suggested Work Plan:
1. Summarize and compile Working Group survey responses --possibly in an Excel file, circulated among Group members. This should be a task for ICANN Staff.
2.Based on Working Group survey responses, clarify the terminology and issues in each Group of the Charter questions. Identify consensus or near-consensus responses and hold Consensus Call on these issues.
3.Create Working Group sub-teams to work on issues by group: (a)
Registration; (b) Maintenance; (c) Contact; (d) Relay; (e) Reveal; (f) Publication; (g) Termination. Note that the current groupings of questions do not include "Publication" or "Termination" categories. We propose adding these categories, which would include questions taken out of other current categories, as identified in the attached redline draft. Note also that the remaining questions in the Main Issues group, an overarching category, would be addressed organically as a result of this proposed process.
a) Each sub-team produces a report, which is delivered to Don by each Friday or Saturday at the latest, so it can be combined by staff with the other sub-team reports and discussed at the upcoming Tuesday Working Group teleconference.
b) When the responses to the survey come in from the other
constituencies, ICANN staff summarizes the responses for the Working Group. Each sub-team then analyzes the constituencies' and Working Group's responses (including majority and minority views) in its area, and delivers the result to Don by Friday or Saturday, so ICANN staff can combine it all in one document, such as an Excel file, for full Working Group review.
4. Working Group holds Consensus Call and revises final Excel file of responses to survey accordingly.
5.Draft report presenting (1) Consensus Proposals (if any); (2)
Non-Consensus Proposals w/ Levels of Support; (3) Minority Views w/Levels of Support.
6. Present Report for Public Comment.
This process will provide a means to circle back to the remaining Main Issues questions.
Regards,
Jim
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