Dear
Sarah,
Thank
you very much for your feedback. I wanted to share a few
replies to your comments and questions below from the
project team:
“At
this point the Metric 10 is comparing the lookup rate for
domains with non-participating registrars against the
actual
request rate for domains with participating
registrars, which is not an 'apples to apples'
comparison.”
ICANN
org response: While we do not have precise data on the
number of lookup as we looked into it as an afterthought,
your comment about how Metric 10 is not an apples-to-apples
comparison, and how many lookup that resulted in
participating registrars did not proceed to request
submission is correct. Initially, the Small Team requested
the number of requests submitted to participating vs
non-participating registrars. As the RDRS did not have an
ability to enable submission of requests to the
non-participating registrars, the closest thing we settled
on tracking was a number for lookups for non-participating
registrars. This has resulted in painting a skewed picture,
as if most of the lookups resulted in non-participating
registrars when this was not the case. We will explore
whether we can improve the data presented in Metric 10 to
reduce confusion.
“Maybe
this metric (8)should simply be renamed to "Disclosure
Requests by Category"?”
ICANN
org response:
You
are correct. This will be renamed “Disclosure Requests by
Request Type.”
Thank
you again,
Eleeza
ICANN
org liaison
Hello
all,
I've
watched the meeting recording and reviewed the report, and
have a couple questions.
Metric
10 was discussed during the meeting; the understanding I
came away with was that although it shows that 80% of
lookups were for domains registered with non-participating
registrars, the actual distribution of lookup between
participating and non-participating was about 50/50. It
seemed that a large portion of the lookups for domains with
participating registrars do not proceed to the request
stage, so only 19% of those lookups turn into requests,
leaving us with the impression that most lookups are for
non-participating when that is actually not the case. If
that understanding is correct (and I think it is, but it
sure is convoluted upon re-reading it) can this be made more
clear somehow in the report?
At this point the Metric 10 is comparing the lookup rate
for domains with non-participating registrars against the
actual
request rate for domains with participating
registrars, which is not an 'apples to apples' comparison.
There
was also some discussion about request type vs requestor
type. Metric 8 is titled "Disclosure Requests by Requestor
Type" but the chart itself has a column "Request Category".
This may seem like a distinction without difference but I do
think we should be consistent; are we categorizing the
request itself, or the requestor? I think it's the request,
since in RDRS the user selects a "request category".
Maybe this metric should simply be renamed to "Disclosure
Requests by Category"?
Thanks
very much,
--
Sarah Wyld, CIPP/E
Policy & Privacy Manager
Pronouns: she/they
swyld@tucows.com