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id: "irt"
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title: "IRT"
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updated: "2026-10-04T14:01:23Z"
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# IRT

Implementation Review Team

A team of community volunteers that helps ICANN staff turn approved policy recommendations into working rules. It checks that the detailed text matches what the policy group intended. IRT once also meant the 2009 Implementation Recommendation Team.

## related terms

- [PDP](https://tldlog.com/glossary/pdp/)
- [consensus policy](https://tldlog.com/glossary/consensus-policy/)
- [ICANN org](https://tldlog.com/glossary/icann-org/)
- [Final Report](https://tldlog.com/glossary/final-report/)
- [Board resolution](https://tldlog.com/glossary/board-resolution/)