[Gnso-epdp-team] Simple clarification proposal for the initial report.

[Mueller, Milton L]

All:
I've been reviewing the draft report. On p 10 we are supposed to be setting out the basic principles underlying the SSAD model.

In fact, we never quite do that. We need to state right there that we have adopted a hybrid model, which involves a centralized point for accreditation and for the receipt of queries, but that disclosure decisions that are made by the contracted party who is holding the data. We need to state that simply and clearly. I propose the following language for the first bullet:

* Requests for redacted data are made to a centralized gateway administered by ICANN, which also accredits entities to make queries. Disclosure decisions are made by the contracted parties maintaining the data.

None of the other principles make any sense until this is stated. E.g., the first bullet point talks about automation but automation of what? Queries, authorization, disclosure? The second bullet point talks about "further streamlining and standardizing of disclosure requests" but this makes no sense unless we have made it clear that the model involves a centralized point for disclosure requests and decentralized disclosure decisions.

Further down on p 11, in describing the benefits, we do say that there is a single point for making requests, but the P. 10 summary is what most people will read first as the basic elements of the model, so we need to make it clear there.

I think this addition is pretty noncontroversial and hope we can go ahead with it.

Dr. Milton L Mueller
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Public Policy
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