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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear Working Group members,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Please be informed that, earlier today, the ICANN Board adopted a Temporary Specification for GDPR compliance, pursuant to the procedure under ICANN’s Registry Agreements and Registrar Accreditation Agreement.
The Board’s action today thus initiates a policy development process to consider the development and adoption of a consensus policy based on the issues outlined within the Temporary Specification – as you may know, the GNSO Council has already begun discussing
how this effort can be conducted within the maximum one-year time frame allowed for a Temporary Specification (renewable by the Board at 90-day intervals for up to a year).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Perhaps of greatest interest to this Working Group, and particularly in view of our co-chairs’ recent letter to the GNSO Council concerning GDPR implications for the UDRP and URS, the Temporary Specification
includes <u>Annexes D and E, to deal respectively with URS and UDRP issues</u>. These annexes relate to the continued provision of Registration Data by registry operators and registrars to the dispute resolution providers, and also specify that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">“Complainant’s complaint will not be deemed defective for failure to provide the name of the Respondent (Registered Name Holder) and all other relevant contact information required
by [the UDRP & URS Rules] if such contact information of the Respondent is not available in registration data publicly available in RDDS or not otherwise known to Complainant. In such an event, Complainant may file a “Doe” complaint and the Provider shall
provide the relevant contact details of the Registered Name Holder after being presented with a “Doe” complaint.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">You can find the full text of the Board resolution and a link to the full Temporary Specification here:
<a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2018-05-17-en">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2018-05-17-en</a>. In addition, ICANN organization has prepared and published an Advisory Statement for the Temporary Specification here:
<a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/advisory-statement-gtld-registration-data-specs-17may18-en.pdf">
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/advisory-statement-gtld-registration-data-specs-17may18-en.pdf</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks and cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Mary, Julie, Ariel & Berry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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