[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] ICANN Blog re Session with European DPAs

theo geurts gtheo at xs4all.nl
Sat Mar 31 20:20:14 UTC 2018


Really?

Shame on you all. SHAME!

Theo
On 31-3-2018 22:08, allison nixon wrote:
> Sorry for being late to the party, but- registrars dominate these 
> icann working groups and they dominated this working group too before 
> the rest of us showed up. The fact that ICANN makes its money from 
> domain fees collected by registrars is also not even debatable. So 
> yes, registrars will be blamed, even if that fact offends you. Even if 
> the appearance of regulatory capture is unfair (which i am not the 
> judge of and so cannot say), that is the appearance at this point.
>
> Its amusing to see the first comment on his blog is from someone 
> claiming that the author is not able to use whois for security 
> purposes. The same wrong argument made many times on this list by many 
> registrars here. The author of the blog post is the vice president of 
> RiskIQ. Maybe he knows a thing or two about using whois for security 
> purposes. Just maybe. Hahahahahaha.
>
> If you google search for any other news coverage on this situation, 
> most of it is pretty critical about the loss of security we are 
> looking forward to, and critical of ICANN's procrastination, and so 
> far none are heralding this as any kind of great victory for the tiny 
> percentage of registrants who will receive a slightly smaller volume 
> of one particular kind of spam. You might not like it, but that's how 
> it is. We were warning about this for a year now.
>
>
>
> On Mar 31, 2018 3:06 AM, "benny at nordreg.se <mailto:benny at nordreg.se>" 
> <benny at nordreg.se <mailto:benny at nordreg.se>> wrote:
>
>     I find it highly offending that registrars are blamed for this
>     mess.
>     http://www.circleid.com/posts/20180330_icann_cannot_expect_the_dpas_to_re_design_whois/
>     <http://www.circleid.com/posts/20180330_icann_cannot_expect_the_dpas_to_re_design_whois/>
>     It’s a bit late to come up with solutions for something which have
>     been known to happen for nearly two years, especially from a part
>     of the industry who have work hard to stop any changes.
>
>     I as one of many requested you and others to come up with
>     solutions which would work for all but all forces was used to
>     fight that and fight for the status quo.
>
>     I fully understand and acknowledge that security need data to work
>     with and these suggestions should have been brought to the table
>     loooooong time ago.
>
>     --
>     Med vänliga hälsningar / Kind Regards / Med vennlig hilsen
>
>     Benny Samuelsen
>     Registry Manager - Domainexpert
>
>     Nordreg AB - ICANN accredited registrar
>     IANA-ID: 638
>     Phone: +46.42197000 <tel:%2B46.42197000>
>     Direct: +47.32260201 <tel:%2B47.32260201>
>     Mobile: +47.40410200 <tel:%2B47.40410200>
>
>     > On 30 Mar 2018, at 18:08, jonathan m
>     <jonathan.matkowsky at riskiq.net
>     <mailto:jonathan.matkowsky at riskiq.net>> wrote:
>     >
>     > Hi Chuck—I’d like to get a discussion going if that’s okay with
>     you. I’d like to know whether for the public data set, it is
>     feasible to have the following solution for the registrant email.
>     It’s based in part on both technical implications and policy
>     requirements.
>     >
>     > 1) Registrar required to notify registrants that starting on x
>     date, the registrant org field will be relied on for purposes of
>     treating the Whois record as an organizational domain rather than
>     as belonging to a natural person. Check your record for accuracy
>     because it may have implications for your privacy if you do not
>     already have or subscribe to proxy or privacy services. A few
>     reminders go out. Educate registrants they may want to update to
>     “Domain Admin” instead of having their first and last name for
>     organizational domains because starting on x date, existing
>     organizational records will otherwise obfuscate or mask the local
>     part of the registrant email in public Whois
>     >
>     > 2) For organizational domains, ICANN will prohibit masking the
>     organizational domain name in the registrant email address.
>     Registrars are free to mask the local part of the registrant email
>     address in accordance with applicable law in the public Whois.
>     >
>     > 3) for natural persons, registrars will be required to use the
>     same encrypted hash algorith so there is parity across databases
>     even though there is no centralized database to manage the
>     encryption. The policy will be enforced by ICANN and subject to
>     auditing. They can warn registrants of the associated risks of
>     compromise to give them a chance to take added precautions and
>     purchase proxy or privacy services.
>     >
>     > This would be the minimum requirements for modifying public
>     Whois registrant email address to avoid damaging the security and
>     stability of the unique identifiers and DNS. If the downside of
>     doing this is prohibitive, than ICANN should seek guidance in the
>     April meeting on whether the public interest in not damaging
>     security and stability outweighs the privacy interference of
>     having email addresses remain in the phone books given its not a
>     particularly strong personal indicator to begin with as privacy
>     and proxy services are available to those that mind as long as
>     they are notified.
>     >
>     > This would result in emails in Whois of natural data subjects
>     being uniformly hashed so that you can freely see which hash owns
>     what, and Whois of organizations being freely listed with any
>     local part of such organizational emails being masked if required
>     by applible law.
>     >
>     > I would like to hear a discussion on this from the group this
>     week. Not on the legality of it under GDPR as the Article 29
>     working group can weigh in but first we need to discuss the
>     architectural and policy issues.
>     >
>     > Thanks
>     > Jonathan
>     >
>     > On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 11:27 AM Chuck <consult at cgomes.com
>     <mailto:consult at cgomes.com>> wrote:
>     > For any of you who have not seen it, the ICANN Blog re the
>     Session with European DPAs that occurred yesterday, here is the link:
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     https://www.icann.org/news/blog/data-protection-privacy-issues-update-discussion-with-article-29-en
>     <https://www.icann.org/news/blog/data-protection-privacy-issues-update-discussion-with-article-29-en>
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Chuck
>     >
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