<div>Hi,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I don't have time to contribute meaningfully to this RDS subgroup on criminal activity; the short turnaround time (i.e. complete all the work next week) conflicts with other commitments that I have made. If any RDS PDP WG member has the capacity to take this on, that would be greatly appreciated. It's not really clear what the subgroup is being asked to do, and we didn't examine the last output we produced, so I'm not sure it's a huge loss if we don't participate, but you never know... I'll definitely read the emails sent to this list and flag anything I see that seems problematic, but if anyone wants to take the pen here, no one else is really stepping forward at the moment.<br></div><div><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><div>Ayden <br></div></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-proton protonmail_signature_block-empty"><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐<br></div><div>On 27 February 2018 9:21 PM, Marika Konings <marika.konings@icann.org> wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Dear Drafting Team 7,</span></span><br></p><p style="font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span><br></p><p style="font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">As those who were on today’s call heard, we have decided to take a week to prep for ICANN61 by working on a specific assignment in drafting team mode.</span></span><br></p><p style="font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span><br></p><p style="font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Our team’s assignment is to reexamine our past output on </span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Criminal Activity/ DNS Abuse Mitigation: <b></b></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/74580010/DraftingTeam7-CrimInvAbuseMit-10%20Nov%202017%20clean.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1510442602000&api=v2">https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/74580010/DraftingTeam7-CrimInvAbuseMit-10%20Nov%202017%20clean.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1510442602000&api=v2</a> <span class="colour" style="color:black"></span></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">to answer the following questions more explicitly and conceptually:</span></span><br></p><ol type="1" start="1"><li style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:12.1pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoNormal"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Who associated with the domain name registration needs to be identified and/or contacted for each purpose?</span><br></li><li style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:12.1pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoNormal"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">What is the objective achieved by identifying and/or contacting each of those entities?</span><br></li><li style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:12.1pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoNormal"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">What might be expected of that entity with regard to the domain name?</span><br></li></ol><p style="font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"></span></span><br></p><p style="font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">To prep for ICANN61, it is imperative that we discuss these questions and produce output over the next week – ideally by 5 March but no later than 7 March.</span></span></b><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"></span></span><br></p><p style="font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span><br></p><p style="font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">We know this is a tall order, give a short timeframe. However, the leadership believes that this will help us use our F2F time at ICANN61 more effectively, which I hope we all agree would be a terrific idea.</span></span><br></p><p style="font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span><br></p><p style="font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">To give us a head start, attached please find a first draft at answers, prepared by me from our past output, and raising a few potential gaps for discussion.</span></span><br></p><p style="font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span><br></p><p style="font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">To learn more about this assignment, please read these instructions: <a href="https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/79432608/Drafting%20Team%20Assignment%2026%20Feb.pdf"> https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/79432608/Drafting%20Team%20Assignment%2026%20Feb.pdf</a></span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">.<span class="colour" style="color:black">  </span></span><br></p><p style="font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span><br></p><p style="font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">If you were unable to attend today’s WG call, please catch up by reading or listening to the call recording/notes/transcript: <a href="https://community.icann.org/x/oAu8B">https://community.icann.org/x/oAu8B</a></span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">.<span class="colour" style="color:black"></span></span><br></p><p style="font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span><br></p><p style="font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">To get started, please ask any questions you may have about this assignment within the next 24 hours.</span></span></b><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"></span></span><br></p><p style="font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span><br></p><p style="font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">If you have any suggested edits or additions or deletions to the attached first draft, even better!  I encourage you to share them in reply to this message, copying the DT mailing list<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:gnso-rds-pdp-7@icann.org">gnso-rds-pdp-7@icann.org</a></span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">.</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span><br></p><p style="font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Thanks for doing what you can to help this drafting team come through on this new assignment.</span></span><br></p><p style="font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span><br></p><p style="font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Best regards,</span></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Marika</span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Marika Konings</span></i></b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Vice President, Policy Development Support – GNSO, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) </span></i><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Email: <a href="mailto:marika.konings@icann.org"> <span class="colour" style="color:rgb(5, 99, 193)">marika.konings@icann.org</span></a>  </span></i><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></i><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Follow the GNSO via Twitter @ICANN_GNSO</span></i><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Find out more about the GNSO by taking our <a href="http://learn.icann.org/courses/gnso"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(5, 99, 193)">interactive courses</span></a> and visiting the <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/sites/gnso.icann.org/files/gnso/presentations/policy-efforts.htm#newcomers"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(5, 99, 193)">GNSO
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