[Gnso-epdp-team] Notes prior to the EPDP call

Tue Jul 31 23:50:28 UTC 2018

Thank you, Kurt, and hello fellow panel members.

I'm Mark Svancarek from Microsoft. (To avoid transcription problems, I am often "Mark from Microsoft" at ICANN or IGF.  Inside Microsoft, I am usually "marksv".)  

By training I am a computer engineer, though in 25 years at Microsoft I have had many roles. I was first introduced to privacy concerns 15 years ago, when Microsoft launched our Trustworthy Computing initiative while I was working on Windows product activation. 

I was most recently part of our Customer and Partner Advocacy group, working with engineering teams to ensure their plans and priorities produced good partner and end user outcomes.  I first came to ICANN 45 specifically to ensure that products and services teams at Microsoft were ready for the wave of gTLDs and IDNs that would be coming at them.  Later, I joined the UASG because of the impact of Universal Acceptance on people and organizations everywhere on the planet.  I'm currently a co-chair of UASG, and earlier this year we were proud to announce that Microsoft email products and online services can support EAI.

Once involved at ICANN, I also began following WhoIs and RDAP efforts and engaged with the internal Microsoft teams who used the dataset to detect digital crimes and protect trademarks.  I helped redraft the RDS PDP problem statement (ICANN 55, I think) but was never very active in the PDP WG itself.

I have recently changed roles again.  I am now a member of the Internet Technology Policy team in Microsoft's Privacy and Regulatory Affairs group, which means I can dedicate myself to UASG, RDAP and EPDP rather than working on them part time.   

Microsoft believes that privacy is a fundamental human right, and we support GDPR as an important step forward for privacy rights in Europe and around the world. We also believe that there are legitimate purposes for which nonpublic portions of the dataset can be accessible under certain circumstances. I am looking forward to working with you all in this challenging but achievable effort to create policy which obeys both the letter and the spirit of GDPR while appropriately supporting those legitimate purposes, and working with Marc and the RDAP team to ensure that RDAP and EPDP outcomes remain compatible with each other.

/marksv

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> Subject: [Gnso-epdp-team] Notes prior to the EPDP call
> 
> Hello Everyone:
> 
> I hope you don’t mind that I write to you informally from time to time 
> on matters that come to mind where I think it would be of benefit to 
> communicate immediately and not wait for meetings.
> 
> In the interest of the meeting tomorrow going smoothly, I want to call 
> your attention to one item in the agenda and “Welcome” note that were 
> sent yesterday.
> 
> We have replaced the typical introductory remarks where we go around 
> the table and allow each member to introduce themselves. That would 
> take over an hour of the two-hour session and I want to make better use of your time.
> 
> Instead, 2-3 minutes will be allotted to each group to describe its 
> goals for this collaboration and whatever else the members want to 
> describe:e.g.,  the names of the members or any challenges / 
> opportunities they face. Please select a member of your group to speak 
> for all of you. I have also asked that each member send in a brief 
> “bio” (2-4 sentences) that we can post in the team wiki pages. (We 
> have received one so far.)
> 
> Thank you for making this adjustment.
> 
> Also, I aspire to start the meeting right at the appointed hour. 
> Please login to the meeting slightly before that time. I have sat 
> through many meetings that start late, calculating the combined hourly 
> rate of attendees waiting for the meeting to start. Thanks in advance 
> for making your best efforts here. I certainly understand you have 
> professional matters that must be addressed and might delay your entry from time to time.
> 
> I hope you found this useful. I welcome your feedback at anytime. My 
> contact information is below.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Kurt
> 
> Kurt Pritz
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> 
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