<div dir="auto">I would like to support Kathy’s question. I think generally we need independent studies that we are comfortable with their design and method rather than research papers and white papers done by external orgs. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As to Haziq’s questions, the first question should be discussed by the community and SSAC writes reports etc on that. The second question, it would actually be good to know how they use AI in their work but some of the issues mentioned might get the answer that ICANN doesnt do that. So maybe a broader question would be better. Do you have a strategy for using AI for auditing for example? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="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 gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 12:08 AM Haziq Jeelani <<a href="mailto:00001dcb9a40d560-dmarc-request@listserv.syr.edu">00001dcb9a40d560-dmarc-request@listserv.syr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-top:0.1em;margin-bottom:0.2em;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(97,97,97)">Hi Rafik,</p><p style="margin-top:0.1em;margin-bottom:0.2em;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(97,97,97)">Two topics from my perspective :</p><ol style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(97,97,97)"><li style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,sans-serif"><p style="margin-top:0.1em;margin-bottom:0.2em;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,sans-serif">How is ICANN addressing AI-enabled DNS abuse (automated phishing, fraudulent domain generation at scale)?</p></li><li style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,sans-serif"><p style="margin-top:0.1em;margin-bottom:0.2em;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,sans-serif">Is ICANN developing AI/ML tools internally for policy analysis, abuse detection, or WHOIS data quality — and if so, how is the non-commercial community being consulted on algorithmic transparency and bias?</p></li></ol><p style="margin-top:0.1em;margin-bottom:0.2em;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(97,97,97)">Happy to elaborate if useful.</p><p style="margin-top:0.1em;margin-bottom:0.2em;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(97,97,97)">Best,
Haziq</p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 4, 2026 at 6:41 PM Rafik Dammak <<a href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Kathy for the comments.</div><div>Everyone, please share your questions/topics/</div><div><br></div><div>Rafik</div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mer. 4 févr. 2026 à 02:23, Kathy Kleiman <kathy@dnrc.tech> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><u></u>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hi
Rafik, Juan and Wisdom,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Yes, I
have a topic. I’m concerned that ICANN, for the sake
of its own integrity and in completion of clear commitments made
long ago
(1999), needs to hold <i style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">a full and fair review of the Uniform
Dispute
Resolution Policy (UDRP).</i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span>The UDRP
was ICANN’s first consensus policy and it is just over 25 years
old.<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span>Noncommercials and
the ICANN Community were promised
a full and fair review of the UDRP – its rules and procedures –
within a few
years of adoption and that never happened.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Then
again in 2016, at the start of the Review of All Rights
Protection Mechanisms – Phase 1 [Uniform Rapid Suspension and
Trademark Clearinghouse],
<i style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">we were promised a full and fair review of the UDRP when
Phase 2 started</i>.
If you check the charter materials of the GNSO Council, the UDRP
review should include
the questions asked by NCSG, including: examining freedom of
expression
protections, assessing the fairness and balance, checking
whether notices to registrants
are being a) received and b) in a language they understand, and
much more.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">You
were in Dublin and I was not, but from a distance, I saw
WIPO and its representatives lobbying ICANN and the GNSO for a <i style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">fast
and
short UDRP review</i> – one focused on the issues that
“insiders” care about, particularly attorneys who regularly work
on UDRP cases before WIPO. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">But
no one is talking about the 97% of the Registrants who
are defaulting</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <b style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">–
nor what we can do to ensure the
UDRP Review is full and fair.</b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span>Before
we expand the DNS with New gTLDs with IDNs, how do we ensure
that the UDRP is “fit
for purpose” and fully and fairly reviewed, and that registrants
and trademark
owners alike are being treated equally and fairly by the UDRP
providers?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Particularly
for Registrants who do not speak English, cannot
afford lawyers, and have never heard of WIPO or the UDRP (the
very registrants
we were promised would be protected in 1999), how can Kurt and
the Board help
us to facilitate a full and fair review of the UDRP?</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Best
and tx,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kathy </span></p>
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