<div dir="ltr"><div>Fully Concur Farzaneh,</div><div><br></div><div>It's a brilliant idea and others similar should also be turned to a blog, Kudos Ephraim for putting this together.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you<br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font face="monospace">Poncelet O. Ileleji<br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="monospace">Jokkolabs Banjul -  Lead / CEO<br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="monospace">Sait Matty Road, Bakau, Adjacent to Swedish Consulate</font></b></div><div><b><font face="monospace">KMC, The Gambia</font></b></div><div><b><font face="monospace">P O Box 4496 Bakau,KMC, The Gambia</font></b></div><div><b><font face="monospace">Skype: pons_utd</font></b></div><div><b><font face="monospace">Tel Direct Office: +220 4495115</font></b></div><div><b><font face="monospace">Tel Mobile/Whatsapp: +220 9912508<br></font></b></div><b><font face="monospace">LinkedIn: Jokkolabs Banjul<br></font></b><div><b><font face="monospace">Facebook: Jokkolabs Banjul</font></b></div><div><b><font face="monospace">Twitter: @jBanjul</font></b></div><div><b><font face="monospace"><br></font></b></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 5:40 PM farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Thank you Ephraim.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I am going to turn this into a blog. If the policy committee and NCSG decides to turn it into a letter getting broader feedback from the membership and send it to the board that would be great. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Policy Committee can you please have a look at this? <br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 11:17 AM Ephraim Percy Kenyanito <<a href="mailto:hello@ekenyanito.com" target="_blank">hello@ekenyanito.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Awesome stuff Farzaneh!<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;line-height:normal"><div style="font-family:arial"><p style="font-family:arial"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:arial;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br>--</span></p></div><p style="font-family:arial">Best Regards,</p></div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><div style="font-family:arial;line-height:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="line-height:normal;font-family:arial;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="font-family:arial"><tbody style="font-family:arial"><tr style="font-family:arial"><td valign="bottom" align="left" style="width:auto;line-height:1;padding:0px 0px 3px;vertical-align:bottom;font-family:arial"><div style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-weight:bold;font-family:"Proxima Nova",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Ephraim Percy Kenyanito</div></td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="line-height:normal;font-family:arial;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font size="2" style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="font-family:"Quattrocento Sans",sans-serif"><span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Quattrocento Sans",sans-serif"><font size="2" style="font-family:"Quattrocento Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Quattrocento Sans",sans-serif"><font size="2" style="font-family:"Quattrocento Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Quattrocento Sans",sans-serif"><font size="2" style="font-family:"Quattrocento Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Quattrocento Sans",sans-serif"><font size="2" style="font-family:"Quattrocento Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Quattrocento Sans",sans-serif"><font size="2" style="font-family:"Quattrocento Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136)">Public Policy Specialist/ Regulatory Affairs Specialist/ Project Manager-<br></font></span></font></span></font></span><span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Quattrocento Sans",sans-serif"><font size="2" style="font-family:"Quattrocento Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="line-height:normal;font-family:"Quattrocento Sans",sans-serif"><font size="2" style="font-fa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:normal;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Impacted vulnerable communities:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> potential impacted communities can be minority groups that discuss sensitive issues on their blog that are unfairly illegal in their countries. Such as minority religious groups, minority political oppositions and others. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)">What is the severity of the actual or potential human rights impact? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Unfair arrest, potential imprisonment, illegal house raids, cruel punishments </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)">What are the potential long-term implications of the situation?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Decrease in use of domain names and public websites for exercising fundamental rights </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Inaccuracy of the database </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Peer companies that are taking action that the company can consult with directly?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Regional Internet Registries that have similar WHOIS databases do not make the requests confidential, they report on which countries asked for the data in their transparency reports (See RIPE NCC) </span><a href="https://www.ripe.net/publications/lea-documents" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">https://www.ripe.net/publications/lea-documents</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)">What can ICANN do to avoid, prevent, or mitigate the actual or potential human rights impacts?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)">ICANN should not grant law enforcement agencies the option to seek disclosure of data confidentially from the registrars. </span></p></span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">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