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Re: [council] Response to Board Request re: IRD Working Group Report
- To: "James M. Bladel" <jbladel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [council] Response to Board Request re: IRD Working Group Report
- From: "Drazek, Keith" <kdrazek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 16:52:33 +0000
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- Thread-topic: [EXTERNAL] [council] Response to Board Request re: IRD Working Group Report
This looks good to me. No objection to sending the letter without a formal
motion.
Thanks,
Keith
> On Dec 5, 2016, at 5:27 PM, James M. Bladel <jbladel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Councilors -
>
> If you recall, several months ago the Board requested that we examine the
> recommendations of the IRD WG, and (1) refer these to the RDS PDP for
> consideration during their work, and (2) confirm that they were compatible
> with the (concluded) Translation & Transliteration (T&T) PDP. We did both of
> these, and James Galvin prepared a lengthy response addressing the second
> question, concluding that these recommendations were not in conflict.
>
> Marika and I have reformatted the information provided by James as a response
> to the original Board letter (attached and copied below). I realize there
> hasn’t been much traffic on this topic, so I would ask that folks please
> review this response and share with your SG/Cs to see if any concerns arise.
>
> Assuming that everyone is good with this letter, then I would ask the Council
> if there are any objections to sending the letter, or if folks would rather
> see this presented formally as a motion for our next meeting.
> Thank you,
> J.
>
>
> 5 December 2016
>
> Response to ICANN Board Letter concerning GNSO consideration of the policy
> implications of the Internationalized Registration (IRD) Working Group’s
> Final Report
>
> Steve Crocker
> Chair, ICANN Board
>
> Dear Steve,
>
> On behalf of the GNSO Council, I am responding to your letter of 11 May 2016.
> I apologize for the delay in developing this response but it was necessary to
> take this time to gather and consider the information needed to
> comprehensively respond to your request.
>
> In your letter, you asked the GNSO ‘to consider the policy implications of
> the IRD’s report, follow up as the Council deems appropriate, and, at a
> minimum, forward the IRD’s report as an input to the Working Groups engaged
> in the Next Generation Registration Directory Services (RDS) to Replace WHOIS
> PDP’.
>
> With regard to the latter request, the IRD report was forward to the RDS PDP
> Working Group for consideration during their work on 7 July 2016. With
> regard to the former request, we consulted with representatives from the
> (previously concluded) Translation and Transliteration of Contact Information
> (T&T) PDP Working Group, and as a result the GNSO concludes that:
>
>
> * The IRD recommendations were, in fact, considered in the development of
> the T&T recommendations, and
> * Those members who participated in both efforts (T&T and the IRD Expert
> WG) made a point to explicitly compare the discussions, to flag any issues
> that appeared to be in conflict, and bring these to the attention of both
> groups, and
> * All discrepancies were reviewed in detail within each group, and
> * The short answer to the concern of whether or not the two sets of
> recommendations are in conflict is, "No, they are not." A more complete,
> nuanced response is as follows.
>
> The following two recommendations are intended to be equivalent.
>
>
> * From the T&T: The Working Group recommends that the language(s) and
> script(s) supported for registrants to submit their contact information data
> may be chosen in accordance with gTLD-provider business models.
>
>
> * From the IRD: A registry must be able to accept and store any language
> or script that might reasonably be expected to be used in their target market.
>
> There is a natural tension regarding the language and script used to
> represent the data among all of the points from a registrant to the final
> display of the data, including how the date is collected by the registrar,
> and how it is stored by the registry. Both the T&T and the IRD working groups
> recognized this and both groups agreed with full consensus that the
> appropriate place to anchor this preference is with the registry. The gTLD
> registry operator’s business model will determine how it intends to serve its
> target registrants, and subsequently drive the decision on which language(s)
> and script(s) it will use to present and manage its services.
>
> The IRD working group went a step further in its deliberations and included
> the following additional recommendation:
>
>
> * Registrants should only be required to input registration data in a
> language(s) or script(s) with which they are skilled.
>
> The purpose of this recommendation was to mitigate any requirement that would
> burden registrants with special skills or requirements. The IRD
> recommendations are based on three foundational principles, and among these
> is the "User Capability Principle: the capability of the data-submitting
> user should be the constraining factor. Such users should not be burdened
> with tasks that cannot be completed under ordinary circumstances." This
> principle is the primary motivation for this recommendation.
>
> These three recommendations are intended to be complementary. A registry is
> expressly permitted to engage in any approved business model with any
> registrant, but it must expect that only registrants who ordinarily work with
> the languages and scripts supported by the registry may use the services of
> the registry. Some might consider this point obvious from a business
> perspective, but nonetheless, the IRD working group believed this point was
> often overlooked in discussions of internationalization and thus chose to
> make it explicitly.
>
> As a result, the GNSO concludes there is no conflict between these sets of
> recommendations, and as such recommends that the T&T IRT factors in the IRD
> Expert Working Group recommendations as part of their implementation efforts.
> However, should the T&T IRT find that there are policy implications resulting
> from the IRD Expert Working Group recommendations, we would refer them to
> existing mechanisms for the IRT to flag these and submit them to the GNSO
> Council for appropriate action.
>
> If there are no objections or further questions from the ICANN Board on this
> approach, I propose that I share this communication with the T&T IRT for
> their information.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> James Bladel
> GNSO Chair
>
> <Response to ICANN Board - IRD Final Report - 5 DEC 2016.docx>
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