<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 25 Jul 2018, at 17:50, Cyntia King <<a href="mailto:cking@modernip.com" class="">cking@modernip.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13);" class="">Agreed that the GDPR should empower Data Subjects to have more control over their PII.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13);" class="">However, this isn’t the only consideration:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" class=""><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13);"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;" class="">The GDPR also states: “The right to the protection of personal data is not an absolute right; it must be considered in relation to its function in society and be balanced against other fundamental rights, in accordance with the principle of proportionality.” (Recital 4)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ol><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13);" class="">I think Rod’s suggestions are a good faith effort to achieve that proportionality.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><ol start="2" type="1" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" class=""><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13);"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;" class="">In meetings w/ the European Commission (28-May-18), the commission said they shared the concerns of trademark rights advocates that there be standardized & predictable access to necessary WHOIS information.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ol><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13);" class="">I believe the Commission is aware that an ad hoc system of response is not only chaotic, but potentially unsafe.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13);" class="">A consistent & reliable system that balances the privacy rights of certain individuals against the threat of harm to (potentially countless) others, will be a difficult - but not impossible - balancing act.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>A system that grants more access than a situation allows under GDPR is also problematic. So when going from ad hoc to standardised, the standard can't have less information than would be required in ad hoc mode, specially information specific to that request, like a power-of-attorney from an specific brand holder. Simply saying "Trust me I'm a lawyer" doesn't cut it.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Rubens</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Rubens</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>