<div dir="ltr">Dear NCSG, <div><br></div><div>Hope this email finds everyone well and welcome to ICANN73. </div><div><br></div><div>Our agenda today will start with the NCSG meeting with the ICANN Board and you can find the link to join this discussion here: <a href="https://73.schedule.icann.org/meetings/GivonKQZodij8QbPS">https://73.schedule.icann.org/meetings/GivonKQZodij8QbPS</a></div><div><br></div><div>The conversation will start at 14h00 CET and we plan to discuss the following questions/talking points: <br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NCSG and <span class="gmail-il" style="">Board</span> Meeting -  ICANN73 </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ICANN and Human Rights </span></p><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;text-align:justify;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1. In its Resolutions the <span class="gmail-il">Board</span> does not mention the impact that its decision might have on human rights in general. What do you think about the possibility of adding what impact if any each resolution you pass might have on rights? We give you an example. You raised concerns about recommendation number 12, of EPDP on WHOIS which talked about deleting the organization field for the registrars. You raised issues with that and the matter was resolved later on through the GNSO small team. But did you also consider if the issue you raised with deleting the organization field might have some impact on registrant's rights? </span></p><br></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;text-align:justify;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2. </span><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In your recent resolutions about WHOIS, the <span class="gmail-il">board</span> has mentioned - sometimes - that WHOIS data is to identify the registrants, and that the deletion of data can lead to not identifying the registrant and that might pertain to global public interest and ICANN mission. Would you be able to explain to us how the <span class="gmail-il">board</span> came to this conclusion about the data being used to identify registrants instead of providing contactability? We would like to prevent this wrong narrative that WHOIS is to identify the domain name registrant. It is not in ICANN mission to identify domain name registrants. </span></p><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-left:72pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">See: "Whereas, the ICANN <span class="gmail-il">Board</span> chose not to adopt implementation advice 2(b) of Recommendation 12, given that the deletion of the contents in the organization field might result in the loss of identifying information about who the registrant is and might not be consistent with ICANN's mission or in the global public interest." <span class="gmail-il">Board</span> resolution February 2022, </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2022-02-24-en#2.b" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.icann.org/resources/<span class="gmail-il">board</span>-material/resolutions-2022-02-24-en#2.b</span></a></p><br><br></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;text-align:justify;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jurisdiction</span></p><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;text-align:justify;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">3. We (the community) gave recommendations in WS jurisdiction around almost 4 years ago to explore receiving an OFAC license. That has not been done to this day. Is the new round of gTLD gonna be closed to all sanctioned countries? </span></p><br><br></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ICANNs relationship with governments the European "digital sovereignty" discussions and the DNS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">4. In our last conversations we have briefly addressed upcoming European legislative initiatives that could have some impact on ICANN and the DNS such as the DSA and NIS2. In light of the European Union's recent study that assessed the scope, magnitude and impact of DNS abuse and provided input for possible policy measures, we would like to ask you whether the <span class="gmail-il">board</span> expects any sort of increased pressure from governments to outsource some of their internet regulatory problems to ICANN in the near future?</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Future of SSAD </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">5. Recently the org published an Operational design assessment about the SSAD in order to gather input for further discussions about the SSAD and for understanding how registration data is used more broadly. We are also aware of the attempt to hire a market researcher/firm to better understand the global demand for an SSAD and conduct a research that was aimed to gain more data around 1) the expected volume of the requests, 2) the number of SSAD users, and 3) such users’ price sensitivity. In light of that we have a rather open question to you which is about the future of the SSAD, and what should the community expect as next steps for this initiative + would be <span class="gmail-il">Board</span> be able to provide us with any sort of timeline for upcoming steps ?. </span></p><br clear="all"><div>See you soon! <br><br>Best, </div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><i>Bruna Martins dos Santos <br></i></b><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></div><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11px"></span></font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font size="2" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">German Chancellor Fellow 21' (</font></span></font><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Bundeskanzler-Stipendiatin</font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">) | <a href="https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/" target="_blank">Alexander von Humboldt Foundation</a></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">Visiting Researcher (Gastwissenschaftlerin) | <a href="https://wzb.eu/en" target="_blank">Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)</a><br></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Member | <a href="https://direitosnarede.org.br/" target="_blank">Coalizão Direitos na Rede</a> <br>Chair</font></span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> | <a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/about/stakeholders-constituencies/ncsg" target="_blank">Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group at ICANN</a><br></span><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Co-Coordinator</font></span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> | <a href="https://igcaucus.org/" target="_blank">Internet Governance Caucus </a><br></span><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></font></p><di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