[CPWG] [registration-issues-wg] Urgent EPDP question

[Carlton Samuels]

I agree; the ALAC should press for differentiation.

-Carlton

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On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 8:13 PM Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>
wrote:

> Here is a question that we need an answer on no later than Tuesday morning.
>
> GDPR requires the information related to Natural Persons be protected
> (for those resident in Europe) be protected. GDPR does not apply to
> Legal Persons (ie companies).
>
> ICANN's Temporary Spec allows contracted parties to treat all
> registrant alike and subject to GDPR.
>
> The EPDP Charter includes questions about whether contracted parties
> may or must treat Legal Persons differently from Natural Persons.
>
> The GAC, BC and IPC have made strong statements about the need to
> restrict GDPS to Natural Persons. The contracted parties are pushing
> back - strongly. The words vary, but in essence what they are saying
> ranges from there should be no constraint on them to yes, they may
> differentiate but with an unspecified time-frame.  (As you may note
> if you looked at the RDS-WHOIS2 report, registrars under the 2013 RAA
> must do some validation of contact information for new an transfered
> domains, but none to simple renewal. so there are currently
> 140,000,000 domains without verified information (5 years after the
> 2013 RAA came into force) and there is no requirement to ever
> validate their information - so unspecified time frames can last a LONG
> time.)
>
> I personally feel that it is essential that we should differentiate
> between legal persons and natural persons, just as GDPR and other
> privacy legislation does.
>
> Comments?
>
> Alan
>
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