law enforcement authentication and RDRS

[Yao Amevi A. Sossou]

Hi Farzaneh. I believe it is okay to improve credibility of law enforcement
requests, as long as it remains a supplementary data point and is
accompanied by clear accountability safeguards.

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On Thu, May 1, 2025, 4:16 PM farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am one of your reps on RDRS, the triage system for disclosure of domain
> name private, sensitive data requests. Law enforcement is asking if they
> can submit domain names to ICANN so that if registrars receive requests
> from RDRS that information can be accompanied by it as well. I think this
> is a better approach than what we have now that anybody can say I am law
> enforcement. But we have to be careful and have accountability
> mechanisms in place later on. Here is what Gabe from FBI requested:
>
> During the RDRS meeting, Gabe noted that he’s working with the Public
> Safety Working Group on both short-term and long-term approaches to support
> ICANN community efforts around law enforcement authentication. As part of
> the short-term solution, they are exploring a mechanism that involves
> compiling a list of domain names tied to known law enforcement agencies.
> The idea is that these domain names could be shared with ICANN technical
> staff to integrate into the RDRS.
>
> If someone submits a disclosure request via RDRS and the request comes
> from an email address associated with a verified law enforcement domain,
> that information could serve as an additional data point. This data point
> could then be shared with registrars to help inform their disclosure
> decisions, particularly in the context of rights balancing.
>
> Gabe emphasized that this would involve minimal technical work and is
> still exploratory. He’s asking the committee if there are any objections to
> him passing these verified law enforcement domains to the RDRS staff, with
> the goal of continuing this short-term work. He acknowledged this might not
> need to be formally documented in the RDRS report, but raised it in case
> there were concerns or feedback from the group.
>
> Farzaneh
>
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