Dear All:

As directed by the ICANN Board in its 26 June resolution, the Security
and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) and the Generic Names Supporting
Organization (GNSO) are convening an Internationalized Registration Data
Working Group (IRD WG) that will be comprised of individuals with
knowledge, expertise, and experience in these areas to study the
feasibility and suitability of introducing display specifications to
deal with the internationalization of Registration Data.

The creation of the Working Group is in response to increasing community
concerns that the current WHOIS service is deficient in a number of
ways, including technical areas as noted in a recent SSAC report titled
SAC037 "Display and usage of Internationalized Registration Data"
(SAC037) located at
_http://www.icann.org/committees/security/sac037.pdf_. Issues identified
in the report include the accessibility and readability of WHOIS contact
information in an internationalized domain name (IDN) environment. On 16
September 2009, ICANN held an online presentation (a “webinar”) on the
“Display and Usage of Internationalized Registration Data” The
presentation is available here:
_http://www.icann.org/en/committees/security/ssac-presentations.htm_.

ICANN Staff in cooperation with members of the GNSO Council and SSAC
developed a draft charter for the IRD WG, which may be viewed at:
_http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/internationalized-data-registration-wg-draft-charter-27sep09.pdf_.

The SSAC and the GNSO encourage SSAC members, GNSO constituencies,
stakeholder groups and other GNSO participants, members of the GAC, the
ccNSO, the ALAC, and the ASO to identify possible participants of the
IRD WG with knowledge, expertise, and experience in these areas to study
the feasibility and suitability of introducing display specifications to
deal with the internationalization of Registration Data.

Please direct questions or request for additional information to Julie
Hedlund, Director, SSAC Support, at: _julie.hedlund@icann.org_.
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Regards,

Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella
Gruber-White, Marie-Helene Bouchoms

ICANN At-Large Staff

email: staff@atlarge.icann.org

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