<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://isoc.live/19819" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></span></a></div><div><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:13px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://isoc.live/19819" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none"><img class="gmail-alignright gmail-size-medium gmail-wp-image-19820" src="https://i0.wp.com/isoc.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/icann84-RDRS.png?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1" alt="ISOC LIVE" width="300" height="169" style="height: auto; max-width: 98%; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); float: right; padding: 2px; margin: 0px 0px 2px 7px; display: block; clear: none; vertical-align: top;"></a><strong style="font-weight:bold"><a href="https://youtu.be/hhNyjGi45TA" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">YOUTUBE</a></strong> | <strong style="font-weight:bold"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/142555603/" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">PATREON</a></strong> | <strong style="font-weight:bold"><a href="https://archive.org/download/icann84-RDRS/icann84-RDRS.EN.TRANSCRIPT.pdf" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">TRANSCRIPT</a> </strong>| <strong style="font-weight:bold"><a href="https://archive.org/details/icann84-RDRS" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">ARCHIVE</a></strong> | <strong style="font-weight:bold"><a href="https://isoc.live/19819" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">PERMALINK</a></strong></p><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:13px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">On <strong style="font-weight:bold">October 25, 2025</strong>, the <strong style="font-weight:bold"><a href="https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/gnsononcomstake/overview" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group</a></strong> (NCSG) in the <strong style="font-weight:bold"><a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">Generic Name Supporting Organization</a></strong> (GNSO) hosted a session at the <strong style="font-weight:bold"><a href="https://meetings.icann.org/en/meetings/icann84/" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Annual General Meeting</a></strong>, in Dublin, Eire – ‘<strong style="font-weight:bold"><a href="https://icann84.sched.com/event/29QGf/gnso-dns-security-without-sacrificing-rights-hria-on-rdrs" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">DNS Security Without Sacrificing Rights: HRIA on RDRS</a></strong>‘</p><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:13px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The <strong style="font-weight:bold"><a href="https://www.icann.org/rdrs-en" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">Registrant Data Request Service</a></strong> (RDRS) is a pilot project — ICANN’s first effort, since <strong style="font-weight:bold"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">WHOIS</a> </strong>was disrupted by the <strong style="font-weight:bold"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">GDPR</a></strong> — to centralize and standardize the triage of requests for non-public registration data. It does this by providing a unified form and routing system that directs such requests to participating (opt-in) registrars.</p><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:13px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">In<strong style="font-weight:bold"> August 2025,</strong> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></span>the GNSO Standing Committee delivered <strong style="font-weight:bold"><a href="https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/generic-names-supporting-organization-council-gnso-council/rdrs-sc-council-report-19-08-2025-en.pdf" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">its report on the RDRS</a></strong>, which was then <strong style="font-weight:bold"><a href="https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/generic-names-supporting-organization-council-gnso-council/summary-report-rdrs-standing-cmte-report-gnso-council-review-20-10-2025-en.pdf" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">open for public comment</a></strong>, until just days prior to this meeting (October 20).</p><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:13px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">By creating a common pathway for registrars to receive requests, RDRS raises fundamental questions about how disclosure decisions are made: when does a requester’s “legitimate interest” outweigh the registrant’s right to privacy, and how should the fundamental rights balancing test be applied across jurisdictions? This session provided an initial human rights impact assessment of the system, asking what aspects of disclosure triage can be standardized in a rights-respecting way beyond the form itself. This session aimed to go beyond the report and situate the conversation on broader challenges, such as cases where abuse is real but not obvious outside certain linguistic or cultural contexts (e.g. phishing against banks that are household names in one market but obscure elsewhere); the uneven practices of registries and registrars regarding disclosure.</p><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:13px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Subsequent to this meeting (<strong style="font-weight:bold">October 30</strong>), ICANN issued an <strong style="font-weight:bold"><a href="https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/registration-data-request-service-rdrs/registration-data-request-service-policy-alignment-analysis-30-10-2025-en.pdf" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">RDRS Policy Alignment Analysis</a></strong>, which is <strong style="font-weight:bold"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/proceeding/registration-data-request-service-rdrs-policy-alignment-analysis-30-10-2025" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">open for public comment</a></strong> until <strong style="font-weight:bold">December 9</strong>.</p><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:13px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="font-weight:bold">SPEAKERS</strong><br><strong style="font-weight:bold">Rafik Dannak</strong> – NCSG<br><strong style="font-weight:bold">Reg Levy</strong> – Tucows / RrSG<br><strong style="font-weight:bold">Alan Woods</strong> – Clean DNS<br><strong style="font-weight:bold">Sarah Wyld</strong> – Tucows / RrSG<br><strong style="font-weight:bold">Thomas Rickert</strong> – eco Association<br><strong style="font-weight:bold">Michele Neylon</strong> – Blacknight / RrSG<br><strong style="font-weight:bold">Michaela Shapiro</strong> – NCSG<br><strong style="font-weight:bold">Naoum Mengoudis</strong> – Hellenic Police<br><strong style="font-weight:bold">Manju Hatolkar</strong> – GNSO<br><strong style="font-weight:bold">Beth Marty</strong> – <a href="http://name.com">name.com</a> / RrSG<br><strong style="font-weight:bold">Sebastien Ducos</strong> – GNSO RDRS Standing Committee</p><br clear="all"></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">#ICANN84 #RDRS #HumanRights</span></div></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>--------------------------------------<br>Joly MacFie  +1<span title="Call with Google Voice">2185659365</span> </div><div>--------------------------------------</div>-</div></div></div></div></div></div>