Sent on behalf of Han Chuan Lee. === 1. The WHOIS Review Team has came out with a Recommendations report. In that report, questions were raised pertaining to Recommendations 1 and 18 which may concern the ccTLDs. Recommendation 1: ICANN's WHOIS policy is poorly defined and decentralized The ICANN Board should oversee the creation of a single WHOIS policy document, and reference it in subsequent versions of agreements with Contracted Parties. In doing so, ICANN should clearly document the current gTLD WHOIS policy as set out in the gTLD Registry and Registrar contracts and GNSO Consensus Policies and Procedure. Recommendation 18: ICANN Community should task a working group within 6 months of publication to finalize (i) encoding, (ii) modifications to data model, and (iii) internationalized services, to give global access to gather, store and make available internationalized registration data. Such working group should report no later than one year from formation, using existing IDN encoding. The working group should aim for consistency of approach across the gTLD and – on a voluntary basis – the ccTLD space. 2. The GNSO Council had approved the Draft Principles for Cross-Community Working Groups. ICANN staff will be disseminating them to the SO/ACs asking for inputs to the GNSO Council on both the principles themselves and the route forward for community-wide adoption or development of a related set of principles for the operation of Cross-Community Working Groups. The document is as attached. Regards Han Chuan ------ End of Forwarded Message