Dear Rudi, It's good to see this issue highlighted. I have added it to https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=44960108 in the wiki. With organizational names, there may even be a case for three fields: form in original script, translation and transliteration (the last being for organizations with no English translated form). Instinctively, I don't like the idea of having some records with translations and others with transliterations in the same field of a database. Regards, Chris. -- Research Associate in Linguistic Computing, Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT Tel +44 20 7679 1599 (int 31599) ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/chrisdillon From: Rudi Vansnick [mailto:rudi.vansnick@comaser.be] Sent: 06 March 2014 09:57 To: Dillon, Chris Cc: Lars Hoffmann; gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg@icann.org Subject: Re: [gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg] WHOIS accuracy Dear Chris, Dear all, When looking into the document Status update EWG, only page 53 and 80 mention the word "translation". In annex A (page 61) I don't see any indication of fields allowing the storage of translated or transliterated contact information. Perhaps this is something we should emphasize a bit more in our discussions. If none is preparing a protocol / storage for translated/transliterated information our whole process does not have any effect. I know this looks quite pessimistic but it is a fact in none of the actual documents I've seen any hint on this. I'm preparing the promised excel sheet. Till soon, Rudi Vansnick Op 5-mrt.-2014, om 10:18 heeft Dillon, Chris <c.dillon@ucl.ac.uk<mailto:c.dillon@ucl.ac.uk>> het volgende geschreven: Dear Lars, Thank you for circulating that. I have added it to an improved page at: https://community.icann.org/display/tatcipdp/8+Verification+and+validation and also added the following resources: 2. the WHOIS Accuracy Program Specification part of the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/raa/approved-with-specs-27jun13... 3. the Status update report from the EWG on gTLD Directory Services:<http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/raa/approved-with-specs-27jun13...> www.icann.org/en/groups/other/gtld-directory-services/status-update-11nov13-en.pdf<https://www.icann.org/en/groups/other/gtld-directory-services/status-update-...> p.22-30 Regards, Chris. -- Research Associate in Linguistic Computing, Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT Tel +44 20 7679 1599 (int 31599) ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/chrisdillon<http://ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/chrisdillon> From: owner-gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg@icann.org<mailto:owner-gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg@icann.org> [mailto:owner-gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg@icann.org] On Behalf Of Lars Hoffmann Sent: 04 March 2014 07:22 To: gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg@icann.org<mailto:gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg@icann.org> Subject: [gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg] WHOIS accuracy Dear WG members - I thought this latest blog entry by Margie Milam on WHOIS accuracy might be useful to our discussion. Many thanks and best wishes, Lars http://blog.icann.org/2014/03/a-model-for-exploring-whois-accuracy/