Background Documents & Information

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