<div dir="ltr">Goran,<div><br></div><div>I am writing you in my capacity of the Chair of the EPDP Phase 2 Team to seek input on financial sustainability issues if the SSAD. </div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">The EPDP Phase 2 Team is considering
the financial sustainability of the System for Standardized Access/Disclosure
(SSAD) currently being deliberated. This will likely involve ICANN managing or operating
a centralized system to facilitate requests for disclosure of non-public gTLD
registration data.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> The Team is contemplating how considerable
cost implications would be to develop, operationalize and run such a System. The
EPDP currently considers principles on which such a system may be based. Work
is still in progress, but the Team is discussing principles such as:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">1. The
SSAD should operate on a cost-neutral basis. No party should operate or seek to
operate this service as a for-profit service, as this would invite abuse and
manipulation of the SSAD functions. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">2. Costs
to operate the SSAD should be borne by the <i><u>direct</u></i> beneficiaries
of the service. The costs of SSAD should not be transferred to Data Subjects
(Registrants), either directly via fees from ICANN or indirectly via fees to
Contracted Parties who provide the SSAD with data and bear the legal risks of
disclosures.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">In the absence of responses from both
the EPDP letter to the Board, and to the Strawberry Team’s query as presented
to the European Data Protection Board, the EPDP team is not in a position to
consider a single model for the potential SSAD. Accepting that financial
sustainability is a vital consideration for the initial report, and as we have
not yet determined the model for the SSAD, we must therefore present the
financial sustainability of each of the general model types so far
postulated: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:12pt 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Fully
Centralized (e.g. with ICANN at the core) </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Centralized Accreditation and
request portal, distributed decision-making, with final response via
Centralized portal (e.g. CZDS). </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Central Gateway, with distributed
review and disclosure</span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">The Team understands that a cost
analysis is difficult to conduct while the exact details of the SSAD are still
being determined. We hope that looking at existing systems such as TMCH or CZDS
might provide useful baselines and identify dependent assumptions that impact
cost models. CZDS, for example, is itself a centralized system for access to
data (in this case zone file data), sharing many similarities with the SSAD
being contemplated.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Equally, financial sustainability analysis
of the UAM could provide same useful indications for Team’s deliberations. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">In order
to understand if it is possible for the SSAD to adhere to these crucial
principles, we are requesting ICANN Org’s help in understanding all the likely
costs associated with both the development and the ongoing operation of the
SSAD. Once we understand the anticipated costs, we would expect to propose a
credentialing and transaction fee structure which would pay for the System and
allow us to better understand the cost/benefit balance of the SSAD as a whole.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Your input on financial sustainability issues will be highly appreciated.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Best regards</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">JK</font></p></div></div>