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On 24 October 2018, the GNSO Council voted in favour of the motion to terminate the Next-Generation gTLD Registration Directory Service (RDS) to replace WHOIS Policy Development Process.
Accordingly, no further RDS PDP WG meetings will be held, and this workspace reflects progress made prior to RDS PDP termination.
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Please note that this wiki space is the work space of the PDP WG, the authoritative space for all relevant resolutions, work documents, and tracking of progress, please consult the Project Page on gnso.icann.org.
Welcome to the Next-Generation gTLD Registration Directory Services to Replace WHOIS workspace.
To Learn
More and Join the DiscussionThis WG held a face-to-face WG session at ICANN57 in Hyderabad:
- RDS PDP WG F2F Session (Thursday 3 November)
The session agenda, materials, and notes can be found here: https://community.icann.org/x/NAe4Aw. The session recordings and transcript can be found here: http://sched.co/8cxj
To prepare for this session, attendees were encouraged to review the following background materials:
- RDS PDP - Update - September 2016.pdf
- RDS PDP Beginner’s Tutorial (2 February 2016)
- Draft 5: RDS PDP Initial List of Possible Requirements for gTLD registration data and directory services (28 October 2016) [PDF]
- Draft Registration Data and Directory Service Statement of Purpose (work in progress)
Further information about the WG's progress to date can be found under the "WG Meetings" tab and especially the "Phase 1 Documents" tab, which is located under the "WG Documents" tab described below.
To Follow this PDP WG's Progress
Click on the "WG Meetings" tab at left to view information about all RDS PDP WG meetings.
Click on the "WG Documents" tab at left to view WG work plans, inputs, phase 1 documents, and more.
Click on the "WG Membership" tab at left to view a list of WG Members and Observers and view the WG's email archive.
| If you are interested in joining the WG as an active Member or mailing list Observer, please fill in the sign up form or send the Word document [DOCX, 72 KB] filled in to the GNSO Secretariat. All members and observers are listed on the WG Members page. |
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All WG Members receive WG Meeting notices via email. WG Observers wishing to actively participate in WG Meetings can update their status to WG Member at any time by contacting Staff.
GNSO Working Group Frequently Asked Questions
More
To learn more about the now-terminated Next-Generation RDS PDP to replace WHOIS, visit these links:
- RDS PDP Termination Summary and GNSO Council Motion to Terminate
- RDS PDP Policy Briefing - June 2018
- RDS PDP Phase 1 Draft Outputs, including work-in-progress through ICANN61
- RDS PDP Mailing List Archives
- RDS PDP WG Membership
Background
This Policy Development Process (PDP) was initiated by the ICANN Board on 8 November 2012 when it launched an Expert Working Group on gTLD Registration Directory Services (EWG) to (1) help redefine the purpose of gTLD registration data and consider how to safeguard the data, and (2) propose a model for gTLD registration directory services to address accuracy, privacy, and access issues.Upon publication of the EWG’s Final Report in 2014, an informal group of GNSO Councilors and ICANN Board members collaborated to propose a Process Framework for structuring this PDP. On 26 May 2015, the ICANN Board adopted that Process Framework and reaffirmed its request for a Board-initiated PDP, using the recommendations in the EWG’s Final Report as an input to, and, if appropriate, as the foundation for a new gTLD policy. Both Preliminary and Final Issue Reports for this PDP were published for public comment in 2015.On 19 November 2015, the GNSO Council approved a Charter for the Next-Generation gTLD Registration Directory Service (RDS) to replace WHOIS (Next-Gen RDS) Policy Development Process (PDP) Working Group. The initial meeting of this WG was held on 26 January 2016.
This workspace will continue to be updated to reflect the WG's plans and progress.
Following ICANN61 (March 2018), the RDS PDP Leadership decided to put on hold WG meetings indefinitely. This decision was made in light of the uncertain status of GDPR-related work and the possible duplication of efforts as a result of the adoption by the ICANN Board of the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data.
Following the initiation by the GNSO Council of the Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) on the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration data, the RDS PDP on 17 July 2018, the GNSO Council Liaison to the RDS PDP WG, Stephanie Perrin, submitted, at the request of the RDS PDP WG, the required Termination Summary [https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/next-gen-rds-12oct18-en.pdf] to recommend to the GNSO Council that the RDS PDP WG be terminated as per section 15 of the PDP Manual.
On the 24th October 2018, the GNSO Council voted in favour of the motion to terminate the RDS PDP. Accordingly, no further RDS PDP WG meetings will be held, and this workspace reflects progress made prior to RDS PDP termination.
