Subgroup 3 – Law Enforcement Needs

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.

Leader/Rapporteur: Thomas Walden

Members: Cathrin Bauer-Bulst, Chris Disspain, Thomas Walden

Mailing-list archives: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/rds-whois2-lawenforcement/

Conference calls

Review Team Templates: see here

Subgroup Documents

Date

Document (Versions in Red are latest)

File

19 Jan 2018

17 Jan 2018

06 Dec 2017

First Pass Document

v3

v2

v1

DOCX

Background Documents

WHOIS Review Team (WHOIS1) Final Report (2012), Chapter 6 and Appendix E: The WHOIS Review team’s Law Enforcement Survey
Additional links specific to Subgroup 3 may be added here

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

Open Actions/Requests

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

Item #	Source of Request	Date of Request	Action Item Request	Action Owner	Anticipated Completion Date*
3	#1	23 Feb 2018	ICANN Org to provide Thomas will first cut answer at next step question, for Thomas to refine and share with subgroup by mid-week	ICANN org	28 Feb 2018
2	#1	23 Feb 2018	ICANN Org to consider whether a briefing from OCTO on interaction with LEA and perhaps DAR would be helpful as input.	ICANN org
1	#1	23 Feb 2018	Thomas to reach out to Lili to see if she would like to join subgroup	Thomas

Completed Actions/Requests

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

Item #	Source of Request	Date of Request	Action Item Request	Action Owner	Anticipated Completion Date*	Progress Notes	Completed Response	Completion Date

Decisions Reached

Source

Date

Decision

#1

23 Feb 2018

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

Content

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