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• 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) and WHOIS Requirements, including RAA WHOIS requirements for Registrants (2013)
• 2014 New gTLD Registry Agreement, including Specification 4 Registration Data Publication Services (2014)

WHOIS Program Improvement Documents

• Accuracy Reporting System (ARS) Pilot Study Report (2014)
• ICANN Blog: Phase 1 of the ARS
• ARS Phase 1 Validation Criteria (2015)
• WHOIS Information Portal and Consolidated WHOIS Lookup Tool
• WHOIS Primer
• Annual Report on WHOIS Improvements (2014)
• WHOIS Implementation Report (2015)
• Final Report from the Working Group on Internationalized Registration Data (2015)
• Final Report from the Expert Working Group on Internationalized Registration Data (2015)Annual Report on WHOIS Improvements (2014)WHOIS Implementation Report (2015)
• ICANN Memorandum to the IRT on Thin to Thick WHOIS Transition - Final Memorandum and Scope (2014-2015)
• RDAP Operational Profile for Registries and Registrars (2016)

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• Article 29 WP statement on the data protection impact of the revision of the ICANN RAA (2013-2014)
  https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/namazi-to-kohnstamm-25mar14-en.pdf
  https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/kohnstamm-to-jeffrey-08jan14-en.pdf
  https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/jeffrey-to-kohnstamm-20sep13-en.pdf
  https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/kohnstamm-to-crocker-chehade-06jun13-en.pdf
   
• Article 29 WP comments on the data protection impact of the revision of the ICANN RAA concerning accuracy and data retention of WHOIS (2012)
  

  https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/kohnstamm-to-crocker-atallah-26sep12-en.pdf

  https://www.icann.org/en/news/correspondence/chehade-to-kohnstamm-09oct12-en
   

• Article 29 WP on ICANN Procedure for Handling WHOIS Conflicts with Privacy Law (2007)
  http://gnso.icann.org/en/correspondence/cerf-to-schaar-24oct07.pdf
  https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/cerf-to-schaar-15mar07-en.pdf

  https://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/schaar-to-cerf-12mar07.pdf
   

• Article 29 WP on ICANN’s WHOIS Database Policy (2006)
  https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/schaar-to-cerf-22jun06-en.pdf
  https://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/lawson-to-cerf-22jun06.pdf
  https://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/parisse-to-icann-22jun06.pdf
  https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/fingleton-to-cerf-20jun06-en.pdf
   
• Article 29 WP 2WP 76 Opinion 2/2003 
  Opinion on the application of the data protection principles to the WHOIS directories (WP 76)
   
• Additional Article 29 WP documents that may be of interest to this PDP WG
  Article 29 WP 5 Recommendation 2/971997
  Article 29 WP 20 Opinion 3/1999 
  Article 29 WP 33 Opinion 5/2000 
  Article 29 WP 41 Opinion 4/2001 
  Article 29 WP 56 Working Document 5/2002
  Article 29 WP 217 Opinion 4/2014  
   
• Further documents produced by the Article 29 WP may be found at their website

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• Declaration of the Committee of Ministers on ICANN, human rights and the rule of law (3 June 2015)
  

European Parliament

• News: Data protection reform – Parliament approves new rules fit for the digital era (April 2016)
• Final Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council (27 April 2016)
  
  

EDPS Correspondence regarding Registration Data

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