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Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues (PPSAI) PDP

Working Group

Status Report & Activity Update ICANN51

11 October 2014

Don Blumenthal, WG Chair

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Status Update

Since London, WG has developed Preliminary Conclusions on additional Charter questions, including:

•RELAY – forwarding of electronic communications

- mandatory if required by ICANN Consensus Policies or RAA;

- for all other electronic requests, 1) providers can elect to either forward all subject to reasonable safeguards against spam/abuse or 2) forward all requests pertaining to domain name abuse

•REVEAL – distinguish between “Publication” in Whois and “Disclosure” to a third party

- provide (in terms of service) for both types of reveal and for customer notification, and include clear criteria and mechanisms for reveal requests.

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Challenges & Next Steps

• Need to complete deliberations on Relay & Reveal, including possible models based on types of requestors (e.g., IP, LEA, anti abuse) and need for greater safeguards against Publication

• Still need to address P/P service provider termination issues

• Need to consider alignment of the WG’s policy recommendations with accreditation framework being developed by staffo Possible need for an IRT

• WG on track to issue Initial Report for public comment in early 2015o WG will complete its work before GNSO PDP on Purpose of

gTLD Registration Data/EWG follow up(s)

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Annex: Background to the PPSAI Policy Development Process

Working Group

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Formation of the Working Group

• A Board-initiated PDP to develop policy recommendations to guide ICANN’s planned Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Program» WG chartered by GNSO Council in October 2013

following Board approval of 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA)

• Charter assigned WG to consider 25 questions

WG divided questions into 7 categories including Registration, Maintenance, Relay & Reveal, Termination

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Additional Information

• Webpage: http://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/active/ppsa

• WG wiki workspace: https://community.icann.org/x/9iCfAg

• WG F2F meeting in LA on Wednesday 15 October, 8.15-9.45 a.m., Beverly Hill Room: http://la51.icann.org/en/schedule/wed-ppsai

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Thank You

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