ICANN Community Should Require WHOIS Registrants To Enter Data in Familiar Languages, Working Group Says
The ICANN community should consider requiring registrants to input WHOIS registration data only in the languages and scripts they are skilled at, and require that data elements be tagged with languages and scripts in use, the Expert Working Group on…
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Internationalized Registration Data (IRD) said Friday in a report. ICANN had asked the IRD working group to determine submission and display requirements for IRD and to produce an IRD data model that would match those requirements. Internationalizing registration data should focus on the capabilities of the data-submitting user and use of existing standards, and should be able to be easily extended to “tailor to the evolution of data elements displayed by directory services for various TLD registries and registrars,” the IRD working group said. ICANN should now ask the Generic Names Supporting Organization to follow up on the IRD report, the working group said.