We just got a really good statement from the GAC on the whole transparency of SOIs.  Kudos to our Manju Chen for steering this difficult group exercise.  Support from GAC on refining the definition of solicitor-client privilege would have been welcome a tad earlier, but better late than never!

cheers Stephanie

On 2023-10-23 3:20 p.m., Stephanie E Perrin wrote:
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Members who are interested in this topic may find the Tucows blogpost of interest:

https://opensrs.com/blog/tiered-access-update-urgent-disclosure-requests-and-updated-statistics/

Cheers Stephanie

On 2023-10-23 12:57 p.m., farzaneh badii wrote:
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Hi all,

I was wondering if you have been discussing the urgent disclosure request (for domain name registrants sensitive data) coming from GAC and what your opinion is. Please let us know on this thread I am not subscribed to the policy committee thread. 

Here is their letter back in August to ICANN Board of Directors: https://gac.icann.org/advice/correspondence/outgoing/public/gac-to-board-registration-data-urgent-requests-23aug23.pdf?language_id=7

Best regards, 
Farzaneh 


On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 4:32 AM farzaneh badii <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Dear members 

Today GNSO council meeting will have a meeting with the GAC and one of the issues on the agenda is “urgent whois requests”.

The GNSO councillors and us have to pay close attention to this issue and make sure GAC/public safety groups are not given access to registrants sensitive private information without following minimum due process and through arbitrary categories like “urgent requests”.

I am interested in knowing what our councillors think. 

This will take place at 13.00 UTC and here is the Zoom link: 

Best regards 

Farzaneh