Commenting to say that this seems to me personally to be a reasonable approach. Seb, I particularly appreciate the suggestion for pre-generation of fields to reduce end user
friction.
That said, I’m taking action to raise this for awareness within PSWG and to solicit any concerns/feedback, and will try to have that conversation occur prior to the next SC
call.
From: Sebastien--- via Gnso-rdrs-sc <gnso-rdrs-sc@icann.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2024 3:36 AM
To: Steve Crocker <steve@shinkuro.com>; farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii@gmail.com>; gnso-rdrs-sc@icann.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL EMAIL] - [Gnso-rdrs-sc] Re: NCSG request: LEA's country/economy
Hi Steve and Team,
I think that indeed the idea would be indeed to collect the requestor’s country for all requests – by making it a mandatory field, pre-populating it with the User country as already set in the
ICANN User profile, but allowing for it to be corrected on the request form.
I assume we will use our Country field and may continue using the term Country in this context, but I understand the ask was
“per country” and “per economy”, the distinction being that a few “economies” operate their own law enforcement without clearly appearing in a country list – Taiwan comes to mind. In our nomenclatures we already use the notion of Territory – in ccTLDs
for example – which might be also a relevant level of granularity. For that reason we should help the user by pre-populating with what information we have, but leave the field open to user input – as opposed to a locked field or a finite dropdown list. This
may lead to odd entries, but I believe we will have to live with it.
Country, Economy or Territory data is not PII to my knowledge, there should be no issue collecting it.
We can then add a metric per Country in our reporting, but for NCSG purposes, I understand we would also then need an LEA-specific country metric, either as a country per requestor type metric,
or as two tables: LEA Requests per Country and Any Request per Country.
Comments, thoughts?
Kindly,
Sebastien Ducos
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