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Status Report by MeitY and Meeting with Stakeholders

10. Mr. Harish V. Shankar, ld. CGSC, has filed a status report on behalf of MeitY, as was directed by the Court vide order dated 3rd August, 2022. The said report records that meetings were held on 24th and 30th August, 2022 with various stakeholders. To this end, a batch of questionnaires was prepared by MeitY and sent to the stakeholders. It is submitted that MeitY is still in the process of receiving all responses and preparing its recommendations.

11. The said questionnaires have been compiled, along with some of the responses received and placed on record by MeitY. As per the said status report, post the order dated 3rd August, 2022, the following developments have taken place:

"a) To address the key issues ascertained under Para-No.10 to 15 and 31, on 3rd of August, 2022, the Hon'ble Court directed MeITY and DoT to conduct a meeting in MeITY premises.
c) On 21.08.2022 & 25.08.2022, MeITY prepared responsive information to the questions posed to ICANN. A copy of the same is DOCUMENT D3-B.
d) On 24.08.2022, MeITY conducted a pre-meeting with the relevant stakeholders including ICANN in which MeITY discussed the key issues of subject matter. In due course of time, MeITY received response from various stakeholders such as Delhi Police, CERT- IN and Domain Name Registrars.

12. Basis the above report, this Court notes that the participants in the meeting dated 30th August, 2022, included MEITY, NIXI, DoT, Cert-IN, IFSO, Delhi Police, ICANN, NPCI and some DNRs. The status report has also annexed the responses received from the Cyber Law and E-Security division, MeitY, Digital Economy and Digital Payments Division, ICANN, NIXI, NPCI and Delhi Police, DoT, to the questionnaires provided by MEITY. The office of the CGPDTM is yet to reply. The said office shall also provide its response to MeitY by 30th September, 2022.