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 WHOIS Review Team Internationalized Registration Data Expert Working Group (WHOIS RT IRD WG)

Working Group Members

Successful completion of the project depends on having team members with the right skills. Therefore ICANN, through its Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees, and through its contacts with the international Internet community, selected the following community volunteers to serve on the WHOIS IRD Working Group:

The Whois Review Team Internationalized Registratin Data Expert Working Group is chartered to determine the requirements for internationalized registration data, and produce a data model that matches the requirement. Its members are: 

• Jim Galvin (Chair)Jim Galvin
• Sarmad Hussain
• Nishit Jain 
• Naoki Kambe
• Jody Kolker
• Takao Suzuki
• Dennis Tan
• Zheng Wang

What This Working Group Will Do

The working group is expected to:

• Determine the requirements for internationalized registration data
• Produce a data model for the IRD that matches the requirement

In doing so, the working group is expected to build on previous community efforts related to this issue, most notably:

• SSAC-GNSO Final Report on Internationalized Registration Data [PDF, 641 KB]
• SAC 054: SSAC Report on Domain Name Registration Data Model [PDF, 575 KB]

The result of the WG product will go through a public comment process to ensure broad input is received. It will form the basis for further policy development and/or contractual framework for generic Top-level domains, as well as ideally becoming a best practice for country code top-level domains.

How This Working Group Will Work

ICANN Working Groups use transparent, open processes. The meetings of this WG will be recorded, and the recordings will be available to the public. The mailing list for the Working Group will be archived publicly. Working Group members are expected to submit Statements of Interest (SOI). The group will collaborate using a public workspace.

Background

The formation of the working group is part of the process to implement the internationalized registration data recommendations of the ICANN WHOIS Policy Review Team Final Report [PDF, 1.44 MB] as adopted by the ICANN Board.