ICANN to Seek EU Data Protection Board Input on Proposed Whois Access Model
A draft technical model for granting access to nonpublic Whois data is being finalized and will be sent to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) to see if it shifts legal liability away from registries and registrars that provide access…
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to domain name registration information, ICANN President Goran Marby blogged. With its temporary spec for generic top-level domain registration data expiring May 20, ICANN wants to ensure that it has a policy in place to comply with the EU general data protection regulation, he said. Comments on a final policy report on the issues are due April 17, after which additional questions will be posed to privacy regulators. ICANN directors will then consider the policy recommendations and the organization will publish its questions to the EDPB. The policy team's work now moves to its second phase, which includes creating a standard mechanism for access to nonpublic gTLD registration data, Marby said Friday.