At-Large Meetings - Tuesday, 15 June 2021

At-Large Policy Session 2: GDPR as a technology - policy implications

This is planned as a cross-community session, trying to scope the potential impact that advancing GDPR compliance with the use of technology will likely have on end users. It particularly seeks to explore the policy implications of the recently issued US patent # 10,979,384 for "Systems and methods for preserving privacy of a registrant in a Domain Name System (“DNS”)" awarded to Verisign and the level to which it might impact the further work of the EPPD.

Agenda:

1. Introduction and welcome; Christopher Wilkinson 08:30- 08:40 (10 mins)
2. EPDP Phase 2 Report, policy implications; speaker tbc - (08:40-08:55) (15 mins)
3. How does the VeriSign patent implement GDPR? ; speaker tbc (08:55 - 09:10) (15 mins)
4. Intellectual property implications for further GDPR policy work within ICANN; speaker tbc (09:10 - 09:25) (15 mins)
5. Q&A, Joanna Kulesza, EURALO (09:25 - 09:55)
6. Summary Christopher Wilkinson, EURALO (09:55 - 10:00) (5 mins)

Background documents and references:

1. Systems and methods for preserving privacy of a registrant in a Domain Name System
2. Andrew Allemann , Verisign gets patent for GDPR-compliant Whois privacy;https://domainnamewire.com/2021/04/13/verisign-gets-patent-for-gdpr-compliant-whois-privacy/[domainnamewire.com]
3. EPDP Phase 2 Report: https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/epdp-phase-2-team-publishes-final-report-10-8-2020-en

Moderator: Joanna Kulesza

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At-Large Policy Session 3: Public Interest: Is the commercialization of ccTLDs a threat?

Objective: The session will attempt to explore if commercialization of ccTLD registries affects Internet end users. Trying to understand the possible impacts of commercialization on consumer protection, competition, the stability of the DNS and in a broader sense on the public interest.

Description: In attempting to explore the public interest in ccTLD registries commercialization, the session will start with an introduction to the history of ccTLD policy and then will to attempt to answer two questions:

1) What is the impact of ccTLD registries commercialization on consumer protection, competition, and the stability of the DNS?

2) Does the commercialization of ccTLD registries affect Internet end users?

Panelists: Expert on ccNSO policy history for the introduction, A GAC member to discuss the matter from a national point of view, a domain name industry player or leader. 

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Moderator: Hadia Elminiawi / Olivier Crépin-Leblond

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