Fwd: [liaison6c] Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services Launched

[Robin Gross]

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> From: Glen de Saint Géry <Glen at icann.org>
> Date: December 14, 2012 11:55:00 AM PST
> To: liaison6c <liaison6c at gnso.icann.org>
> 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 experworkinggroup at icann.org 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
> gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org
> http://gnso.icann.org
>




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