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Seminars held on 24 January, 22 February, 6 April, & 24 April 2018
Welcome to the reference page for materials and information relating to the 24 January and 22 February 2018 meetings sponsored by the Business Constituency (BC) and Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC) on the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and WHOIS. This page will be updated periodically as new materials and information become available. Please check back for updates.
January 24, 2018 Seminar
Thank you for attending the Business and Intellectual Property Constituencies’ seminar on GDPR and WHOIS on January 24, 2018.
Well over 200 people attended the session, either in person or via remote participation. Our agenda covered:
- Discussion of needs and risks
- Overview of compliance requirements
- Concerns regarding procedural issues within ICANN
- Review of community-submitted compliance models
- Review of ICANN Org’s compliance models
- Discussion with ICANN CEO Göran Marby and General Counsel John Jeffrey
- Open discussion and overview of next steps
For convenience, meeting- and issue-related materials are archived here. Thank you again for attending the seminar and for your interest in this issue.
Additional Materials:
- Agenda and Advance Reading Materials
- Meeting Slides
- Meeting Recording Part 1
- Meeting Recording Part 2
- Meeting Transcript Part 1
- Meeting Transcript Part 2
- Coalition for Online Accountability Slides(not presented during meeting)
Additional Materials:
- EU General Data Protection Regulation
- ICANN Data Protection and Privacy Web Page
- ICANN WHOIS Use Cases Matrix
- BC Letter to ICANN re GDPR/WHOIS (Aug. 31, 2017)
- ICANN Response to Aug. 31, 2017 BC Letter (Sept. 24, 2017)
- ICANN Letter to EU Data Protection Authorities (Sept. 12, 2017)
- IPC Legal Memo from Taylor Wessing re GDPR/WHOIS
- Hamilton Legal Analysis Part 1
- Hamilton Legal Analysis Part 2
- Hamilton Legal Analysis Part 3
- RDS Working Group Legal Memo from Wilson Sonsini re GDPR/WHOIS
- GDPR Session During ICANN 60
- GAC Abu Dhabi Communique
- ICANN Contractual Compliance Statement re GDPR and WHOIS Contractual Obligations
- ICANN GDPR and WHOIS Analysis, Models, and Community Comments Web Page
- IPC Comments on Hamilton Legal Memos
- IPC Comments on Interim GDPR Compliance Models
- BC Comments on Hamilton Legal Memos
- BC Comments on Interim GDPR Compliance Models
- IPC-BC Joint Letter to Article 29 Working Party
February 22, 2018 Seminar – Part 2
ICANN’s impending selection of a model for compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ICANN’s contracts, and the impact of this selection on WHOIS, continues to be a key topic for a broad spectrum of ICANN stakeholders. While the proposed models remain under consideration, this webinar was a continued discussion (hosted by the IPC and the Business Constituency) on the topic.
Meeting Materials:
6 April 2018, Seminar – Part 3
Meeting Materials:
- BC-IPC WHOIS Access Accreditation Process 1.3.pdf
- Accrediation Access Model Comment Grid – 05APR18 .pdf
24 April 2018, Seminar – Part 4
- Meeting Recording
- WebEx Chat
- Transcript – pending
Meeting Materials:
- WHOIS Access Accreditation Process 1.314.pdf
- Annotated – WHOIS Accreditation and Access Model v1.4.pdf
- Accrediation Access Model Comment Grid – 05APR18 .pdf
GDPR Accreditation & Access Model for non-Whois Public Data, as discussed during ICANN61 (12 March 2018):
http://www.ipconstituency.org/accreditation