AT-LARGE GATEWAY
At-Large Regional Policy Engagement Program (ARPEP)
At-Large Review Implementation Plan Development
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| Comment Close Date | Statement Name | Status | Assignee(s) and | Call for Comments | Call for Comments Close | Vote Announcement | Vote Open | Vote Reminder | Vote Close | Date of Submission | Staff Contact and Email | Statement Number | |
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| n/a | Explore the Draft Next Generation gTLD Directory Services Model | Carlton Samuels (LACRALO) to confirm if a Statement is necessary | Commenting | Holly Raiche (APRALO)TBC | TBC | TBC | TBC | TBC | TBC | TBC | TBC | n/a | TBC |
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The final draft version to be voted upon by the ALAC will be placed here before the vote is to begin.
FIRST DRAFT SUBMITTED
ALAC has previously expressed its concerns with compliance with the RAA, in particular, both the wording of the RAA which made accuracy requirements difficult to enforce and the difficulty with the ICANN Compliance in ensuring such accuracy. The concerns were echoed in the Final Whois Policy Review Team Report, which ALAC supported.
ALAC, therefore, supported the important changes to the RAA and related documents as accepted by the Board in June of this year that hold out promise for significant changes including:
- Stronger obligations on registrars for verification
- Stronger accuracy requirements
- Stronger language for enforcement
- At least a skeleton framework for privacy/proxy services
It is against that background that ALAC is responding to the proposals by the Expert Working Group for the Aggregated Registration Data Service (ARDS).
Our first issue is that the significant reforms to Whois data - its access, accuracy and enforcability - have been addressed in reforms to the RAA and related documents. Work on development of the ARDS should not be seen as any reason not to fully implement those significant reforms.
That said, there ARDS proposed many important changes to the issues surrounding registration data which ALAC supports. Specifically, we strongly support the following elements of the ARDS proposal:
- It will allow tiered access to registration data. The public will still have access to some Whois data, but only those with recognised reasons to access specific data will be able to do so - thus addressing some legitimate privacy concerns with all Whois data being publicly available
- it will provide a centralized responsibility for data accuracy
There are still significant issues that will need to be worked through, such as determining who has access to what data, for what reason, and how will compliance be enforced. However, we support continuing discussions on the develpoment of the ARDS proposal, and expect to continue to be involved in those discussion first draft submitted will be placed here before the call for comments begins.
