Begin forwarded message: > From: Glen de Saint Géry <[log in to unmask]> > Date: December 14, 2012 11:55:00 AM PST > To: liaison6c <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: [liaison6c] Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory > Services Launched > > > http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-14dec12- > en.htm > Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services Launched > > 14 December 2012 > 13 December 2012... Fadi Chehadé, ICANN's President and CEO, is > announcing the creation of an Expert Working Group on gTLD > Directory Services. This first step in fulfilling the ICANN Board's > directive to help redefine the purpose and provision of gTLD > registration data will provide a foundation to help the ICANN > community (through the Generic Names Supporting Organization, GNSO) > create a new global policy for gTLD directory services. The working > group will be chaired by Jean-Francois Baril, as the group's Lead > Facilitator, and interested individuals with the requisite > experience are invited to indicate their interest in serving as > volunteer working group members (more information below). Board > Chair, Steve Crocker, and Director, Chris Disspain, will serve as > Board liaisons to the working group. > > The objectives of the working group are to 1) define the purpose of > collecting and maintaining gTLD registration data, and consider how > to safeguard the data, and 2) provide a proposed model for managing > gTLD directory services that addresses related data accuracy and > access issues, while taking into account safeguards for protecting > data. This output will feed into a Board-initiated GNSO policy > development process to serve as a foundation for the GNSO's > creation of new consensus policy, and requisite contract changes, > as appropriate. The working group will be informed by the WHOIS > Policy Working Group's report [PDF, 1.44 MB] and previous community > input and GNSO work over the last decade, will address key > questions set forth by the Security and Stability Advisory > Committee (SSAC) in their report,SAC055 1 [PDF, 348 KB], and will > take into consideration current and future Internet operations and > services. The working group also will address concerns of the > parties who provide, collect, maintain, publish or use this data as > it relates to ICANN's remit. > > ICANN staff will publish an issues report that incorporates the > working group's output, which will form the basis of a Board- > initiated GNSO PDP. ICANN and its leadership will be focused on > facilitation of the expedited policy work to enable the GNSO to > recommend a consensus policy that, at a minimum, addresses the > purpose of collecting, maintaining and making available gTLD > registration data, and related data accuracy and access issues. > Such a policy would be contractually binding on ICANN accredited > gTLD registrars and gTLD registries upon adoption by the ICANN Board. > > Working Group Schedule and Operations > > The working group will conduct its activities from January through > April 2013 and may be extended, if needed. Work will be conducted > primarily online and through conference calls, and two face-to-face > meetings are expected. The working group will periodically provide > public updates on its progress, and output from the working group > is expected to be presented for community discussion online and at > the ICANN Beijing meeting in April 2013. ICANN Staff will support > the working group. > > Working Group Volunteers > > Qualified individuals are being identified to participate in the > working group. Individuals with the following characteristics are > invited to indicate their interest in serving as volunteer working > group members by sending an expression of interest and their resume/ > CV by email to [log in to unmask] by 31 December 2012. > > Volunteer working group members should: have significant > operational knowledge and experience with WHOIS, registrant data, > or directory services; be open to new ideas and willing to forge > consensus; be able to think strategically and navigate conflicting > views; have a record of fostering improvements and delivering > results; have a desire to create a new model for gTLD directory > services; and be able to volunteer approximately 12-20 hours a > month during January – April 2013 to the working group. Individuals > who have worked extensively in the areas of registration data > collection, access, accuracy, use, privacy, security, law > enforcement, and standards and protocols are also encouraged to > consider working group membership. As the working group will be a > collection of experts, it is not expected to be comprised solely of > representatives of current ICANN community interests. Although > members may not come directly from ICANN structures, the working > group will have a deep understanding of, and concern for, the ICANN > communities' interests.The working group's results will feed into > the GNSO's bottom-up, policy development process where all > community interests will be encouraged to participate in the > decision-making efforts. > > ICANN will reimburse working group members for travel and other > expenses associated with working group activities, per ICANN > reimbursement rules. > > 1 In SAC055, SSAC called for an expert working group to define the > purpose of collecting and maintaining gTLD registration data and > address questions such as: Why are data collected? What purpose > will the data serve? Who collects the data? Where is the data > stored and how long is it stored? Where is the data escrowed and > how long is it escrowed? Who needs the data and why? Who needs > access to logs of access to the data and why? > > > Glen de Saint Géry > GNSO Secretariat > [log in to unmask] > http://gnso.icann.org > IP JUSTICE Robin Gross, Executive Director 1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451 w: http://www.ipjustice.org e: [log in to unmask]