[gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg] Purpose and accuracy

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

Dear colleagues,

Ideally we need to add something about the purposes of contact information that 
require accuracy and those that don't.

The Final report from the EWG on gTLD Directory Services has a good list of 
purposes from p.19-34.

The Study to evaluate solutions for the submission and display of 
internationalized contact data has a useful section on Information accuracy for 
effective use on p.9 with three levels of accuracy suggested:
1. Requiring accurate transformation (e.g. valid in a court of law, matching 
information in a passport, matching information in legal incorporation etc.)
2. Requiring consistent transformation (allowing use of such information to 
match other information provided in another context, e.g. to match address 
information to a registrant on a Google map, etc.)
3. Requiring ad hoc transformation (allowing informal or casual version of the 
information in another language to provide more general accessibility)

The last sentence of the study is of particular interest to us from the 
accuracy point of view and also from its summary of the state of the 
transformation tools etc.:
"The study has found that provisioning and querying protocols are lacking 
either support or deployment for internationalized registration data, and that 
the tools tested are not providing a high level of transformation accuracy and 
consistency of internationalized registration data."

Do we need a better analysis of purposes and accuracy? Does one exist?

Incidentally, see 
https://community.icann.org/display/tatcipdp/7+Studies+and+Background+Documents
for links to the reports mentioned above.

Regards,

Chris.
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