Dear members of IRD-WG,
Greetings. When the IRD-WG Final report was approved by the group in March. It was sent to GNSO and to SSAC for review and approval. As a result, the SSAC provided a few comments, for your review and approval.
Most of these comments are to correct technical and other errors in the document. The only substantive change is that the SSAC proposed an additional recommendation:
Recommendation 4: ICANN should take appropriate steps to require gTLD registries and registrars andpersuade ccTLD registries and registrars to support the following standards:
Domain Names - both A-label and U-label; nameserver Names- A-label, and optionally U-label;
Telephone/fax- ITU-T E.123; Email- IETF EAI WG RFCs; Registration Status- Exact EPP status where applicable; Dates - ISO 8601-2004.
The rationale for this recommendation is that SSAC members asked: is there a reason why standards agreed to in Section 4.2 are not part of the final recommendations for action now? For example, Nameserver, Phone/fax, Dates, Registration Status are fields where it appears the WG had consensus. By proposing recommendation 4, it made possible for possible actions where the IRD-WG had consensus, without having to wait for the translation and transliteration issue to resolve.
Attached please find the report (REDLINE, clean version).
We appreciate the IRD-WG members could review these changes and discuss whether to approve them by May 9, 2012. If the IRD-WG feel there is a need for a teleconference call, staff is happy to organize it.
Kind regards,
Steve