Hello T/T IRT members,

 

As you know, the T/T implementation has been on hold pending a determination of the status of RDAP. In light of consultations with our internal and external project teams involved in the “Thick WHOIS: Consistent Labelling and Display” implementation, the provision to mandate an RDAP service on the part of all gTLD registries has been removed from their draft policy document that is expected to go for public comment within the next few days.

 

Instead, our plan for RDAP is to have the service implemented on a contractual basis (which encompasses all but 7 legacy gTLDs), with an announcement planned for February 2017 and an effective date of 1 August 2017. Please note this plan is yet to be confirmed, and therefore tentative.

 

Bottom line: RDAP is not “dead”, as some in the community had feared, and—assuming the above plan moves forward—the implementation will be carried out next year. 

 

Given these developments, I think it’s safe to resuscitate our T/T work. You may recall there was debate within our group on whether the T/T recommendations could/should be implemented along with the roll-out of RDAP or would be better suited for RDDS work in other areas (e.g. the Next Gen RDS PDP). We’ll review this discussion in our next call, as well as discuss a plan for our F2F meeting in Hyderabad, which is currently scheduled for Tuesday, 8 November from 15:15 – 16:15. 

 

I’ll send around a doodle poll invite shortly for the week of October 24. 

 

Thanks everyone. Please let me know of any questions. Otherwise, I’ll look forward to speaking with all of you soon.

 

Best,

 

Brian