Accuracy (Please comment)

[farzaneh badii]

Hello NCSG,

As you know we have a small council that is looking at the "accuracy"
issue. Only Council members can join the small teams but you can observe
the work should you want.

 The accuracy issue is about having "accurate" registration data.

 There are already obligations in place for the registrant to update their
information but some part of the community doesn't see that as sufficient.
Our redline here is any recommendation that could obligate the registrant
to identify themselves (by handing in their ID card) when they want to
register a domain name.

Here are some preliminary recommendations for your review. (link to
recommendations:
 https://docs.google.com/document/d/17EuezBvqUy81RaZAw1gW-ZKsdpKRamXDPgi4EYaFJ1w/edit?tab=t.0
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/17EuezBvqUy81RaZAw1gW-ZKsdpKRamXDPgi4EYaFJ1w/edit?tab=t.0>

In my opinion they are not that bad, one is about giving a shorter time to
the registrant to verify their information. As long as safeguards in place
(ample and clear notice, right to rectify immediately without losing access
to domain, what else?)

Also this recommendation:
Recommendation 3: The Council Accuracy Small Team recommends further work
on the Registration Directory Service (RDS) Whois 2 Review Team’s
outstanding board-approved recommendation CC.1, which provides “The ICANN
Board should initiate action intended to ensure that gTLD domain names
suspended due to sustained incorrect WHOIS contact data should be treated
as follows:
(1) The WHOIS record should include a notation that the domain name is
suspended
due to incorrect data,
(2) Domain names with this notation should not be unsuspended [by the
registrar] without [the registrant] correcting the data.”

The Small Team does not prescribe how this further work should occur but
rather acknowledges that this recommendation is still outstanding and has
flagged this for future work.

At the first glance doesn't look that bad but registries and registrars
have concerns about implementation. Do we have any concerns about the
domain name registrants in this case? In a way I like this recommendation
because if the registrant doesn't receive the email from the registrar for
whatever reason can understand by looking up their domain why their domain
is suspended. But maybe there are better ways to do this and I don't know
the further implications.

Farzaneh
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