Dear T/T IRT,

 

Thank you for your patience as we work on our end to consolidate and analyze the input we’ve received from you over the course of this implementation. We’ve come to the conclusion that we have two paths available to us, which we’d like your input on:

 

  1. Draft a strawman policy document based on all the input we’ve gathered so far, recognizing that all the aims and intents of the original T/T recommendations may not be fulfilled given the vagueness of some of the language within the Recommendations, and the technical obstacles inherent to implementing them. This option may still take us back to the GNSO for input, but will give us something tangible to circulate within our group and with relevant stakeholders for input and critique before pursuing the GNSO path.
  2. Continue discussion on the meaning of “easy identification” in the context of the T/T recommendations, as well as guidelines for identifying languages. This option will likely lead us to the GNSO for input quite quickly given the difficulties we’ve had answering questions on the meaning of “easy identification”, language identification, and how to collect and validate language data.

 

We’re gravitating toward option 1 as it would give us a tangible work product to show from our efforts, as well as provide a basis for further work and improvements.

 

Of course, we’re open to your suggestions on these or other potential paths.

 

Please let us know what you think by the end of next week.

 

As always, thank you for your valuable contributions to this effort.

 

Best,

 

Brian

 

 

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Brian Aitchison, MRes, PhD

Lead Researcher

Operations & Policy Research

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300

Los Angeles, CA 90094

Office: +1 310 578 8688

Mobile: +1 424 353 9041

brian.aitchison@icann.org

 

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