ICANN Board Urged to Pause Work on Whois Access
ICANN should halt work on a policy for access to Whois data, its Intellectual Property Constituency wrote board Chairman Maarten Botterman. The IPC stressed it's committed to using the multistakeholder process to develop a "workable system" for accessing domain name…
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registration data but current recommendations for a system for standardized access/disclosure (SSAD) "are not yet fit for purpose." The most important SSAD recommendations lack community consensus, potentially making them "difficult or impossible to enforce" (see 2010210001). A European Commission proposal to update its cybersecurity directive (NIS2) takes "important steps" toward addressing shortfalls in the domain name system, including access to accurate registration data, it would be inadvisable for the board to permit further work on recommendations that may run counter to EC guidance. "Given that ICANN has repeatedly sought guidance from EU institutions as to how the [general data protection regulation] should be applied to the DNS and domain name registration data, we encourage ICANN to embrace NIS2 as a valuable source of such guidance," the IPC wrote. Congress has been urged to intervene on Whois (see 2102160001). ICANN didn't comment Tuesday.