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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Dear colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>This week, ICANN organization has published an RDAP conformance tool. The RDAP conformance tool is a stand-alone, open source tool that can be used to verify if an RDAP server implementation is conformant with the specifications developed by the IETF and optionally, the gTLD RDAP profile.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>For more information about the RDAP conformance tool you may visit this recent publication at </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/icann-launches-new-tool-to-verify-conformance-with-rdap-requirements-3-2-2022-en"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC'>https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/icann-launches-new-tool-to-verify-conformance-with-rdap-requirements-3-2-2022-en</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>The RDAP conformance tool and source code is available at </span><a href="https://github.com/icann/rdap-conformance-tool/"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC'>https://github.com/icann/rdap-conformance-tool/</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>If you have any questions please contact ICANN Global Support as described in </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/customer-support-2015-06-22-en"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC'>https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/customer-support-2015-06-22-en</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> .</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Best regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Eduardo Alvarez</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Technical Services Director</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>ICANN</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>