Re: [lac-discuss-en] [ALAC-Announce] Call for comments

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[ALAC-Announce] Call for comments   ªs I hope you are all aware, due to the 
European General Data  
Protection Regulations (GDPR), access to some gTLD Domain Name  
registrant information (WHOIS) is being restricted. Traditionally,  
for a registrant who did not use a proxy service a WHOIS Query would  
reveal their full name, address, phone number and e-mail address. If  
you do a lookup for one of my addresses today you will see almost  
nothing! Try looking up alangreenberg.org at https://whois.icann.org.  
This increases privacy for some registrants and also makes  
information harder to access for those who currently use WHOIS.  
There are serious monetary fines associated with GDPR, so compliance  
is important.  
In addressing the new regulations, there has been a lot of discussion  
within ICANN over the last year. A GNSO Policy Development Process  
(PDP) started about 2 years ago which should have provided a new  
system (now called a Registration Directory Service (RDS) instead of  
WHOIS), but unfortunately that process has not completed in sufficient time.  
ªs a result, to meet the GDPR deadline of 25 May 2018, the ICANN  «oard 
implemented a Temporary Specification Policy to allow us and  
our contracted parties (Registrars and Registries) to be  
GDPR-compliant. That temporary policy must be replaced by a permanent  
one within one year - a VERY short time for ICANN policy development.  
The GNSO is starting an Expedited PDP which can complete faster than  
a regular PDP. The ALAC is being given two Members in the this group.  
We need to establish what our guiding principles are.  
Please visit https://community.icann.org/x/_YlHBQ, read what others  
think, and contribute your thoughts on what positions we should be taking  ªlan 
 
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