General GNSO Processes & Background
- Overview of GNSO Policy Development
- GNSO Policy Development Process (from the ICANN Bylaws, Annex A)
- GNSO PDP Manual
- GNSO WG Guidelines
- GNSO WG Chair Description
Board and GNSO Motions
- Board Motion to initiate PDP (8 November 2012)
- Board Motion reaffirming request for PDP (26 April 2015)
- GNSO Motion to approve WG Charter (19 November 2015)
EWG Final Report, FAQs, and Research
- EWG Final Report (6 June 2014)
- EWG Public Research Reports
- Data Protection Considerations Applicable to the Collection of gTLD Registration Data
- ccTLD WHOIS Data Verification/Validation Survey
- WHOIS Privacy and Proxy Service Provider Practices Survey
- Contact Data Validation and Verification Systems RFI
- Registration Directory Service User Accreditation RFI
- RDS Implementation Model Cost Analysis
- RDS Risk/Benefit Survey
- EWG FAQs and Multimedia FAQs
- EWG RDS Tutorial and Webinars
- EWG List of Proposed Principles (extracted from June 2014 Final Report)
- EWG’s page on the ICANN website
- EWG Member Individual Statements and Blogs
EP-WG Process Framework
- Process Framework Page (26 April 2015)
Issue Reports & Public Comments
- Preliminary Issue Report (13 July 2015)
- Final Issue Report [PDF] and [Word] (7 October 2015)
- Public Comment Announcement (13 July 2015)
- Public Comment Forum (13 July 2015 - 6 September 2015)
- Report of Public Comments (7 October 2015)
- Hyperlinked Table of Public Comments on Issue Report
WG Charter
- WG Charter Page (19 November 2015)
- Call for PDP WG Volunteers (4 January 2016)
Additional Key Inputs
- Categorized lists of additional hyper-linked inputs relevant to this PDP, including:
WHOIS Task Force & Policy Review Team Reports
Procedure for Handling Conflicts with National Laws
WHOIS Studies
SSAC Reports
Registry & Registrar Agreements
WHOIS Program Improvement Documents
Related GNSO PDP Reports
GAC Communiques regarding WHOIS
Article 29 Data Protection Working Party Letters and Documents
Council of Europe Declaration
EDPS Correspondence regarding Registration Data
International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications and Media Documents
IETF RFCs
EWG Member Individual Statements and Blogs
- Responses to RDS PDP WG Questions on Data Protection and Privacy Laws
- ccTLD Registry Operators' Responses to Questions on Privacy, Data Protection and the GDPR
Tutorial Materials
- EWG RDS FAQs
- EWG Multimedia FAQs
- EWG RDS Tutorial
- Top 10 Questions about the RDS Webinar (16-17 September 2014)
- RDS PDP Beginner’s Tutorial Slides and Tutorial AdobeConnect Recording (2 February 2016)
- WHOIS Basics Slides (9 March 2016)
- Additional tutorial materials to be developed as needed