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(green star)Objective

Consistent with ICANN’s mission and Bylaws, Section 4.6(e)(ii), the review team will assess the extent to which the implementation of today’s WHOIS (the current gTLD RDS) meets legitimate needs of law enforcement for swiftly accessible, accurate and complete data by (a) establishing a working definition of “law enforcement” used in this review, (b) identifying an approach used to determine the extent to which these law enforcement needs are met by today’s WHOIS policies and procedures, (c) identifying high-priority gaps (if any) in meeting those needs, and (d) recommending specific measureable steps (if any) the team believes are important to fill gaps. Note that determining which law enforcement requests are in fact valid will not be addressed by this review. 

Background Documents

Further background documents may be found on the Review Team's overall Background Materials page.


(green star)Leader/Rapporteur: Thomas Walden

(green star)Members: Cathrin Bauer-Bulst, Chris Disspain, Thomas Walden, Lili Sun, Stephanie Perrin

(green star)Mailing-list archives: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/rds-whois2-lawenforcement/

(green star)Conference calls

(green star)Review Team Templates: see here


Subgroup Documents

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Law Enforcement Survey Questions

v3

v2

v1

Face-to-Face Mtg #2 Slides - Findings

V2v2

v1

Subgroup Report

v1

Planning Questions

v1

First Pass Document

v3

v2

v1


DOCX

DOCX

DOCX


PPTX

PPTX


DOCX


PPT


DOCX

DOCX

DOCX

Open Actions/Requests

*To be provided once reasonable date is determined by appropriate subject-matter expert

 
Item #Source of RequestDate of RequestAction Item RequestAction Owner

Anticipated Completion Date*

Progress Notes14#28
ICANN org to reach out to Thomas to clarify law enforcement survey logistics and request status updateICANN org13#27

 

ICANN org to provide an example of survey output to the subgroup to inform methodology related discussions.

ICANN org

12#27

 

ICANN org to investigate on transparency requirements pertaining to surveys, as subgroups would like the survey link not to appear on review team public lists.

ICANN org

11#27

 

Cathrin to update the draft survey based on input received and to share with subgroup.

Cathrin

Completed Actions/Requests

*To be provided once reasonable date is determined by appropriate subject-matter expert

Item #Source of RequestDate of RequestAction Item RequestAction Owner

Anticipated Completion Date*

Progress NotesCompleted ResponseCompletion Date
14#28

 

ICANN org to reach out to Thomas to clarify law enforcement survey logistics and request status updateICANN org

Email

 

10#2

 

Staff to provide support for staging draft questions, as the subgroup may request

ICANN org

Email

 

9#2

 

Cathrin to revise and circulate to the subgroup a draft list of questions

Cathrin

Email

 

8#26

 

Cathrin to draft survey questions for subgroup to review the questions

Cathrin

Email

 

6#25

 

Cathrin volunteered to substitute for Thomas for Face-to-Face Meeting #2 and provide assistance with subgroup draft report. ICANN org to provide a draft subgroup report to Cathrin.



 

4#18

 

Flesh out potential questions for a law enforcement survey

Law Enforcement Subgroup

Email

 

7

#26

Stephanie and Lili to be added to Subgroup 3 - Law EnforcementICANN org

 

 



1#1

 

Reach out to Lili to see if she would like to join subgroupThomas
Cathrin completed action itemEmail

 

5#22

 

Finalize briefing questions for OCTO and questions to be covered during informal outreach to LE.Subgroup
CLOSED - subgroup has deferred discussion with OCTOEmail

 

2#1

 

ICANN Org to consider whether a briefing from OCTO on interaction with LEA and perhaps DAR would be helpful as input.ICANN org
CLOSED - subgroup has deferred discussion with OCTOEmail

 

3#1

 

Provide Thomas will first cut answer at next step question, for Thomas to refine and share with subgroup by mid-weekICANN Org

 



 

Decisions Reached

SourceDateDecision
#2

 

On Law Enforcement Survey:

1) refine the WHOIS1 questionnaire to better address law enforcement respondents,

2) develop a refined list of questions to obtain feedback from the RT,

3) stage draft questions in a survey tool such as SurveyMonkey to test the survey,

4) run the same survey before and after GDPR changes to WHOIS

#1

 

Has your subgroup identified any needed briefings/resources? How will the subgroup conduct its investigation?

  • Outreach to LEA contacts to solicit input on needs 
  • Possible examples - GAC PSWG, APWG, SSAC members (John Levine)
  • Need to structure outreach in a transparent and accessible way
  • Start with informal outreach and then consider broader more formalized outreach
  • How will subgroup review identified documentation? N/A