hi thank you all for joining us today
I'm here with the chair Kurt Pritz and
the vice chair and council agent Rafiq
dharmic of the genus OHS the generic
name supporting organizations expedited
policy development process on the
temporary specification for generic
top-level domain registration data Kurt
the EP DP team has been working very
hard this week at ICANN 63 you met a
full day on Saturday and you've been
having meetings almost every single day
what the team accomplished so far here
in Barcelona America Thanks the team did
work very hard and is continuing to work
hard at this meeting it's not really a
departure from what they've done in the
past though in the past couple weeks
we've had up to four conference calls a
week you know each up to two hours
apiece and you know a considerable
amount of homework associated with each
one but we wanted to take advantage of
this face-to-face opportunity where we
always seem to make good progress
because there's the interpersonal
relationship benefits of face-to-face
meeting and so we discussed some of the
the harder issues having to do with our
work and that is you know what are the
legitimate lawful purposes for
collecting registration data and using
registration data under the new privacy
regime pests in the European Union so we
attack some of the key issues there and
got to consensus on some of the more
thorny issues so I found that very
encouraging doing that work we realized
all the detail work that underlies that
still must be done the development of
legal basis for that use of data
identifying which data elements can be
collected for each purpose so the group
made significant progress on these big
issues that are very important to get
out of the way and are now working on
the substance that underlies all by
okay that's very encouraging to hear
Rafiq on Monday the e PDP team also held
a high interest topic session with the
broader community and what are your
takeaways from that session so we we
could as a team to present what the
status of our work and what we did and
to introduce approach to fraud and how
we try to steer our deliberation for the
the work and what I think what happen is
that the community understand better how
we are dealing with the task that the
team got and at least we familiarize it
with them with our approach and the
status of our deliberation and so to
give the community that insurance that
the a PDP team were really working hard
to with the tasks that it God from the
Jenna so to come up with the policy to
replace the temporary specification so I
think it was a quite positive that
because it was the team representing the
world and the reaction was where the
positive and I think the community got a
sense of the depth of analysis required
and the competence of the team and and
the team itself by doing the work in
getting ready for the for that event
you know understood itself how far down
the path has come in being able to
perform some of these sophisticated
analyses that have to do in determining
you know what purposes for collecting
data are lawful and the legal basis for
them and all the underlying work that
they've done so I think there were sort
of surprised on both sides that the work
being is being done confidently oh well
thank you Kurt so what does the e PDP
plan to go next
are they on track for delivering their
initial report shortly after I can
sixty-three yeah so the plan is to work
like heck so it's sort of like cleaning
out your garage you know
and and the team often complains about
you know being down in the weeds you
know when you're cleaning out your
garage it looks worse just before you're
done and so we've done a lot of
groundwork and all those things I
mentioned earlier all those little
little bits and now we're assembling
them into what a an initial report looks
like so we'll look at that in the in the
next couple weeks and we'll see how much
work needs to be done to release the
initial report and we want a balance
between getting the initial report out
on a timely basis because meeting the
25th of May deadline is of paramount
importance to us but also one of furnish
and initial reports in the community
where they understand the work that's
been done and can make a meaningful
comment to that thank you very much and
thank you both for joining me here for
those of you that are interested in this
work I would like to encourage you to
follow the deliberations of the e PDP
and especially pay attention to when
they publish their initial report and we
hope that many of you will contribute to
that effort thank you very much
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