Dear all, The proposed agenda for our next Working Group call on Tuesday 26 August is as follows: 1. Roll Call/Updates to SOI 2. Continue deliberations on F-1 (updated template attached) 3. [if time permits] Commence deliberations on F-2 (initial draft template attached) 4. Next steps Please also note the following additional points: (1) In initial discussions last week, the WG agreed on the need to distinguish between ³disclosure² of a P/P customer¹s details to a third party requestor, and ³publication² of those details in Whois. To that end, the following definition was proposed via email, and has been added to the template for F-1 as a suggested Preliminary Conclusion:
³Publication² - means the reveal of a person¹s (I.e. the licensee or beneficial owner of a registered domain name) identity/contact details in the Whois system ³Disclosure² - means the reveal of a person¹s (i.e. the licensee or beneficial owner of a registered domain name) identity/contact details to a third party requestor.
(2) The WG Chairs note that this Category F contains several potentially overlapping questions; as such, discussions under F-1 and F-2 may well ³spill over² into or get taken up by discussions of the other questions and some of the remaining Category F questions may be combined following our next call. For your convenience, here are the remaining Category F questions:
F-2: Should ICANN-accredited privacy/proxy service providers be required to reveal customer identities for the specific purpose of ensuring timely service of cease and desist letters? F-3: What forms of alleged malicious conduct, if any, and what evidentiary standard would be sufficient to trigger a reveal? F-4: What safeguards must be put in place to ensure adequate protections for privacy and freedom of expression? F-5: What circumstances, if any, would warrant access to registrant data by law enforcement agencies? F-6: What clear, workable, enforceable and standardized processes should be adopted by ICANN-accredited privacy/proxy services in order to regulate such access (if such access is warranted)? F-7: What specific alleged violations of the provider¹s terms of service, if any, would be sufficient to trigger publication of the registrant/owner¹s contact information? F-8: What safeguards or remedies should be available in cases where publication is found to have been unwarranted? F-9: What are the contractual obligations, if any, that if unfulfilled would justify termination of customer access by ICANN-accredited privacy/proxy service providers?
Thanks and cheers Mary Mary Wong Senior Policy Director Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) Telephone: +1 603 574 4892 Email: mary.wong@icann.org