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<p><span style="font-family: microsoft sans serif; color: Red; font-size: 10pt;"><b>OFFICIAL
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear All,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Per the ongoing Action Item regarding examples of SSAD urgent requests, after review of the revised text of Rec. 8 and the new recommendation on Urgent SSAD Disclosure Requests
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dde62eeOfCvf6qcbnXoLdYFF4Oum0RN2sz2jBuBm6yw/edit">
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dde62eeOfCvf6qcbnXoLdYFF4Oum0RN2sz2jBuBm6yw/edit</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">GAC Reps believe there is no need to further illustrate the categories listed, be it “imminent threat to life”, “serious bodily injury” and “child exploitation”. For reference, the
<a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/framework-registry-operator-respond-security-threats-2017-10-20-en">
Framework for Registry Operator to Respond to Security Threats</a> refers to these as such:
<i>Initial judgment of a request being "High Priority" should be self-evident and require no unique skills in order to determine a public safety nexus. "High Priority" should be considered an imminent threat to human life, critical infrastructure or child exploitation.</i><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">Regarding “Critical Infrastructure”, they believe it should be understood as discussed by the GAC reps in the Phase 1 IRT to be along the lines of generally accept definition: Critical
infrastructure means the physical and cyber systems that are vital that their incapacity or destruction would have a major detrimental impact on the physical or economic security or public health or safety.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Many Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Chris Lewis-Evans</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
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