Hi,

In preparation for item 8 on Thursday’s Council meeting agenda, I am forwarding a memo developed by GDD staff, and addressed to the GNSO Council, outlining the rationale and preliminary community feedback to the proposal of merging the implementation of the Translation and Transliteration of Contact Information PDP recommendations with the Consistent Labelling and Display track of the “thick” WHOIS implementation process currently underway.

I hope you will find this informative. I can take any questions or comments from the Council back to the IRT. Of course, you can also direct those to Cyrus and Francisco during their briefing to us on the topic in two days.

Thanks.

Amr

Begin forwarded message:

From: Brian Aitchison <brian.aitchison@icann.org>
Subject: Memo to GNSO re: bundling Translation and Transliteration into Thick WHOIS IRT
Date: May 10, 2016 at 9:04:29 PM GMT+2
To: "aelsadr@egyptig.org" <aelsadr@egyptig.org>
Cc: Fabien Betremieux <fabien.betremieux@icann.org>, Francisco Arias <francisco.arias@icann.org>, Marika Konings <marika.konings@icann.org>, "Karen Lentz" <karen.lentz@icann.org>, Krista Papac <krista.papac@icann.org>, "Lars Hoffmann" <lars.hoffmann@icann.org>

Dear Amr,

I am the GDD lead for the Translation and Transliteration implementation project, and am sending you the attached memo on behalf of Fabien Betremieux to forward to the GNSO Council for their consideration at their meeting on Thursday, 12 May. 

As you have discussed with him, the memo concerns the proposal to merge the implementation of the T/T project into the work stream of the Thick WHOIS IRT. 

You can find all the relevant details in the memo itself. Please let me know if you have any questions. Otherwise, on behalf of GDD Staff, we thank you for forwarding it to the GNSO Council ahead of their Thursday meeting. 

Best,

Brian Aitchison


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