ICANN has opened a public consultation to determine how quickly registrars and registries should respond to urgent requests for access to nonpublic registration data, such as in cases involving imminent threats to life, serious harm, or child exploitation. The move addresses a long-standing gap in the implementation of Recommendation 18 of the Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) for gTLD Registration Data, which called for a specific, expedited response timeline but left it undefined during earlier policy work.