<html><head><base href="x-msg://41942/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I am just getting around to reviewing tha changes made by the SSAC to the IRD's final report.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't know if the GNSO has reviewed or commented yet. So hard to keep track of what the GNSO is up to these days.</div><div><br></div><div>In any case, if anyone has comments, i will pass them along to the WG.</div><div><br></div><div>avri</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Steve Sheng <<a href="mailto:steve.sheng@icann.org">steve.sheng@icann.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[ssac-gnso-irdwg] Update: Final Report of the Internationalized Registration Data Working Group</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">27 April 2012 17:57:19 EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"<a href="mailto:ssac-gnso-irdwg@icann.org">ssac-gnso-irdwg@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:ssac-gnso-irdwg@icann.org">ssac-gnso-irdwg@icann.org</a>><br></span></div><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Dear members of IRD-WG, </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> 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. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> 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: </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; ">Recommendation 4:</span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>ICANN should take appropriate steps to require gTLD registries and registrars andpersuade ccTLD registries and registrars to support the following standards:</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Domain Names - both A-label and U-label; nameserver Names- A-label, and optionally U-label;</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Telephone/fax- ITU-T E.123; Email- IETF EAI WG RFCs; Registration Status- Exact EPP status where applicable; Dates - ISO 8601-2004. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The rationale for this recommendation is that SSAC members asked: i<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">s there a reason why standards agreed to in Section 4.2 are not </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">part of the final recommendations for action now? For example, </span>Nameserver, Phone/fax, Dates, Registration Status are fields where it <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">appears the WG had consensus. By proposing </span>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. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Attached please find the report (REDLINE, clean version). </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">We appreciate the IRD-WG members could review these changes and discuss whether to approve them by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="color: rgb(218, 64, 28); ">May 9, 2012.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>If the IRD-WG feel there is a need for a teleconference call, staff is happy to organize it. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Kind regards, </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Steve</div></div></span></blockquote></div></div></body></html>