Dear IRT,
Thank you for
the excellent support at the ICANN78 for Registration Data
Policy. I was glad to see both RrSG and RySG sessions
included Registration Data Policy implementation on the
agenda and the proactive education and call to action
happening prior to the publication of the policy.
The
ICANN78 IRT session
was very productive and served as a critical meeting getting
us aligned in providing all of our support to the new
approach to the policy publication. I am speaking, of
course, of the publication excluding Urgent Requests. This,
as I am reminded, was an approach we had discussed a long
ago but became an approach of choice with the GAC’s letter
to the Board. We all know just how difficult it was for us
to come up with the policy language requirement balancing
the need for timely disclosure with the practical business
realities at hand.
With the IRT
support, you’ve seen that Seb wrote his letter to the GNSO
Council documenting the IRT’s agreement and asking the GNSO
Council to take up the Urgent Request issue. We were well
supported at the IRT session by Becky’s attendance to
clarify the Board’s understanding of the difficult issue and
the thinking that publication should proceed without the
sections pertaining to Urgent Requests.
At the moment,
ICANN org is coordinating with the Board to receive formal
direction to proceed with publication of the policy. Once
that direction is received, we’d be able to fill in the
effective dates in Section 4 of the policy. As promised, we
will maintain the full 18-month implementation period with
the 6+12 concept we had agreed to. I am providing
a copy of
the policy with tbd dates for now so that you can clearly see the
changes reflecting the removal of the Urgent Request
definition and response time requirement. One more thing -
you’ll note an addition in Section 9.2.4 where we are adding
a reference to 9.2.2.4. This is meant to correct a
reference that had been left off inadvertently.
Our next step
will be to inform the IRT when we have direction from the
Board and dates and come back to you with the final clean
policy document ready for publication.
I’d like to take
this time to announce that Thomas Rickert has replaced
Sebestian Ducos as our GNSO Liaison going forward. Please
join me in thanking Seb for his fantastic support throughout
and until the last minute writing that important email to
the GNSO Council
for us. You might be
interested to know that Seb thought it was finally the right
time and the two of us conducted a jumping high-five after
our meeting.
I do think it’s
about time we enjoy a milestone victory after all these
years. As always, thank you so much for hanging in there and
supporting this policy implementation until the end.
--
Gratefully yours,
Dennis S. Chang
GDD Programs
Director
Phone: +1 213 293
7889
Sykpe: dennisSchang
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