Dear all,

To various degrees each Sub Team cc’d here has been discussing how it wishes to approach both the specific language of, as well as the additional comments that accompanied, the Save Domain Privacy petition that was signed by 10,042 people. I did a quick skim of the additional comments that were sent in as an attachment to the petition and prepared the following summary based on the initial categories used by the Save Domain Privacy organizers in their statement. Some of this may be more relevant or useful to one rather than another Sub Team, but I thought it may be helpful to send it to all of you nonetheless.

For Sub Team 2 on Section 1.3.3, while there were quite a few comments that did not distinguish between personal-use domains and websites with those used for commercial purposes, there were other commenters who linked their concerns over privacy or anonymity with their specific experiences as registrants or proxy customers of domains that are used in relation to online financial transactions of one sort or other. Please see the categories below for additional details.

For Sub Team 3 on Annex E, on the question of whether “verifiable evidence” means only a court order, no commenter expressly said this is what the phrase must mean, although a few noted that disclosure should only take place upon either a court order, warrant, due process or (in one instance) “some legal document”. Several mentioned the possibility of getting a subpoena or a warrant (with a few adding that this is due process that should be obtained from legal channels, law enforcement or a government agency). Others simply noted that these are existing channels that can be used without specifying if they believed these to be the only ones. One or two mentioned the need that disclosure be made only upon “probable cause” or “good cause” but without specifically linking this to a court order. As such, and if I may, I don’t think we can say that there is unequivocal support from the additional comments to the petition for one specific meaning to the term “verifiable” (should the Sub Team or Working Group wish to go down that path).

While there were numerous comments that simply stated the commenter’s wish for privacy and/or the need to respect the right to privacy in general terms, there were also numerous commenters that tried to relate their opinions to specific concerns.

Generally, the most common concerns that can be gleaned from these additional comments to the SDP petition seem to be:

Cheers

Mary