From:
owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Adrian Kinderis
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:19 PM
To: Liz Gasster; Council GNSO
Subject: [council] RE: Pending additions to ICANN glossary -- update on
Council request from Mexico City
Thanks Liz.
Would it be possible to have
this glossary in a wiki format that could be added to and adjusted on the fly?
I understand having it as an
‘official’ ICANN Glossary in this way may be problematic but maybe a GNSO
Council specific one on our wiki? I note that such things as IRT, IDN, DNSSEC
etc are not there... we could all pitch in to add definitions if it was a wiki.
Folks in the industry that speak different languages could provide translations
‘on the fly’.
Just a thought...
Also it would help to list them
by acronym not by true name. So when someone hears the acronym they can find it
easily.
From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Liz Gasster
Sent: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 7:29 AM
To: Council GNSO
Subject: [council] Pending additions to ICANN glossary -- update on
Council request from Mexico City
All,
During our after-action meeting in Mexico
City, several of you suggested that we update the ICANN glossary to add some
basic terms that we refer to frequently but that are missing currently from
that compendium http://www.icann.org/en/general/glossary.htm
. Definitions have been developed for the terms that were identified by
Council members (copied below for your reference, note also an updated
definition of WHOIS has been prepared). These definitions are currently
being translated and they will be added to the glossary when the translations
are complete.
ICANN’s Corporate Affairs department will
be updating the glossary more broadly in the upcoming weeks.
We will also be adding a link to the
glossary from the GNSO home page, http://gnso.icann.org/
. This was also suggested in the Mexico meeting.
Thanks, Liz
PDP
- Policy Development Process
A set of formal steps, as defined in the ICANN
bylaws, to guide the initiation, internal and external review, timing and
approval of policies needed to coordinate the global Internet’s system of
unique identifiers.
Operations
Steering Committee
The Operations Steering Committee (OSC)
coordinates, recommends and reviews changes to certain operational activities
of the GNSO and its constituencies with a view to efficient outcomes. These operational activity areas cover GNSO operations,
Stakeholder Group and Constituency operations, and communications with GNSO and
between GNSO and other ICANN structures.
Policy
Process Steering Committee
The Policy Process Steering Committee
(PPSC) reviews and recommends processes used within
the GNSO for developing policy, including the use of Working Groups, and
recommending any changes.
Registry
Services Evaluation Process
The Registry Services
Evaluation Process (RSEP) is ICANN’s process for evaluating proposed gTLD
registry services or contractual modifications for security, stability or
competition issues. Further information on RSEP is available at http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/.
WHOIS
WHOIS (pronounced "who is"; not
an acronym) An
Internet protocol that is used to query databases to obtain information about
the registration of a domain name (or IP address). The WHOIS protocol was
originally specified in RFC 954 <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc954.txt>,
published in 1985. The current specification is documented in RFC 3912
<http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3912.txt>.
ICANN's gTLD agreements require registries and registrars to offer an interactive
web page and a port 43 WHOIS service providing free public access to data on
registered names. Such data is commonly referred to as "WHOIS data,"
and includes elements such as the domain registration creation and expiration
dates, nameservers, and contact information for the registrant and designated
administrative and technical contacts.
WHOIS services are typically used to
identify domain holders for business purposes and to identify parties who are
able to correct technical problems associated with the registered domain.