GDPR, Auction Proceeds Among Hot Items at Upcoming ICANN Meeting
Compliance with the EU general data protection regulation and what to do with proceeds of auctions on new generic top-level domain (gTLD) names will be among hot topics at the Saturday to Thursday meeting in Barcelona, the internet body said.…
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There will be sessions devoted to ICANN efforts to amend its Whois registration database to comply with the EU law, including the status of an expedited policy development process on ICANN's temporary specification for Whois and issues surrounding the creation of a system to allow third-party access to nonpublic registrants' data (see 1810080002). A Cross-Community Working Group will present its preliminary report on auction proceeds. Auctions were used as a last resort in 16 of 218 contested new gTLD applications, with proceeds placed in a separate reserve pending a decision by the community on how they should be used, the report noted. Other likely topics, stakeholders said: (1) The continuing review of rights protections mechanisms, considering whether to keep, narrow or expand them. (2) The nonprofit's failure, more than two years after accountability bylaws were enacted, to establish independent review panels. (3) Whether the organization has a strategy for dealing with expected battles at the Oct. 29-Nov. 16 ITU Plenipotentiary over who controls the domain name system root zone.