[Ncsg-discuss] A few council issues for your consideration

[farzaneh badii]

Hello NCSG

1. The final council meeting of the year will happen in December. We will
vote on a few things. One thing is the RDRS recommendations. We discussed
this extensively and we have good language in the recommendations to
require the registrar to consider human rights and do an assessment when
necessary before disclosing domain name registrant data. We also agreed to
look into authentication and accreditation for law enforcement and perhaps
a narrower authentication for law enforcement takes place so that it
doesn't cost too much. But of course we have consistently said whatever the
solution, accountability mechanisms have to be in place. Here is the 90
page report:
https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/generic-names-supporting-organization-council-gnso-council/rdrs-sc-council-report-19-08-2025-en.pdf#page=5.48
I
recommend we vote yes to these recommendations and perhaps read out a short
statement about the importance of privacy and accountability of the
requestors.

2. Another important thing is that the council is going to vote on what
sort of DNS abuse PDP we should do. From our conversations and our input I
suggest voting yes to two PDP tracks that are not running in parallel. It
can also operate based on a representative and open model if we don't want
to run it based on a solely representative model. (see slide 16:
https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2025/presentation/dns-abuse-issue-report-13nov25.pdf#page=16.00)
We are going to have two PDPs one on associated domain check and another on
API.

There is something concerning about doing PDPs based on one external report
and suggestions (I believe both these suggestions were mentioned in one
report). Especially when we are not really consulted. But at this point
that ship has sailed. We can talk about how to avoid this in the future
though. So if that concerns you let me know. (we raised it in our public
comment on the issue report)

Best regards,





Farzaneh
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