RE: [gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg] MP3 Translation and Transliteration of Contact Information PDP WG meeting - 06 March 2014

["Dillon, Chris" <c.dillon@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Amr and Rudi,

This is just to pick some points out of yesterday’s discussion, partly for the 
benefit of those who may be reading the wiki or this list, rather than 
listening to all the calls.

I think we do need to encourage other groups to be aware of the implications 
our recommendations may have (for example additional fields in the data model 
for transliterated and/or translated forms). Perhaps this isn’t central to our 
charter, but as Rudi said, the implementation could be substantially slowed 
down if we ignore this aspect.

That said, Amr’s point about our needing to stress more the desirability of 
translation and/or transliteration is very important:
For example, “Do we feel that all contact information in all gTLD registries 
for all registrants should be translated and/or transliterated for the purpose 
of WHOIS look-up?”

As Rudi mentioned, the consensus is basically that it should, although Kathy 
Kleiman's post on the NCSG-Discuss mailing list (5 March, 2014)
https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=44960127
highlights that translation and/or transliteration could add to the financial 
burden of registrants.

Regards,

Chris.
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