[ssac-gnso-irdwg] WHOIS review team report published

[Steve Sheng <steve.sheng@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear IRD-WG, 

The WHOIS review team has just published a draft report.

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-05dec11-en.htm<http://www
.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-05dec11-en.htm>

It contains 8 chapters and 20 recommendations. Specifically Chapter 5 is
devoted to IRD, and there are 3 recommendations in Chapter 8 about IRD,
listed below. 

Kind regards,  

(Chapter 8) 

Internationalized Domain Names

18. ICANN Community should task a working group within 6 months of
publication to finalize (i) encoding, (ii) modifications to data model, and
(iii) internationalized services, to give global access to gather, store and
make available internationalized registration data. Such working group
should report no later than one year from formation, using existing IDN
encoding. The working group should aim for consistency of approach across
the gTLD and ­ on a voluntary basis ­ the ccTLD space.

19. The final data model and services should be incorporated and reflected
in Registrar and Registry agreements within 6 months of adoption of the
working group¹s recommendations by the ICANN board. If these recommendations
are not finalized in time for the next revision of such agreements, explicit
placeholders for this purpose should be put in place in the agreements for
the new gTLD program at this time, and in the existing agreements when they
come up for renewal (as is the case for adoption of consensus policies).

20. Requirements for registration data accuracy and availability in local
languages should be finalized (following initial work by IRD-WG and other
similar efforts, especially if translation or transliteration of data is
stipulated) along with the efforts on internationalization of registration
data. Metrics should be defined to measure accuracy and availability of data
in local languages and (if needed) corresponding data in ASCII, and
compliance methods and targets should be explicitly defined accordingly.