[Fwd: [council] Update: IDN .test Root-Zone Evaluation]

[Danny Younger]

Checking the list of registrars that offer services in
different languages at
http://www.internic.net/language.html I find no
registrars specifically listing Persian, Greek,
Yiddish or Tamil.  It seems to me that the GNSO new
gTLD recommendation #19 that requires registries to
only use ICANN accredited registrars should not be
supported by this constituency.

best regards,
Danny


--- Robin Gross <robin at IPJUSTICE.ORG> wrote:

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	[council] Update: IDN .test Root-Zone
> Evaluation
> Date: 	Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:12:33 +0200
> From: 	GNSO.SECRETARIAT at GNSO.ICANN.ORG
> <gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org>
> To: 	'Council GNSO' <council at gnso.icann.org>
>
>
> [To: gtld-council[at]gnso.icann.org;
> council[at]gnso.icann.org]
> [To: gnso-idn-wg[at]icann.org]
>
>
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-19jun07.htm
> Update: IDN .test Root-Zone Evaluation
>
> 23 August 2007
>
> ICANN today finalized the IDN .test Evaluation Plan
> and continued taking
> steps toward insertion of IDN strings in the root
> zone. Recent changes
> to the plan are based on comments received on the
> IDN public forum and
> also from consultations with ICANN Technical
> Advisory Committees. This
> last version was approved by the ICANN Board at
> their 14 August 2007
> meeting. The resolution directs ICANN Staff to
> implement the IDN .test
> Evaluation Plan, and report back to the ICANN Board
> following the
> conclusion of the evaluation.
>
> Specifically, the Board approved the delegation of
> eleven evaluative
> top-level domains representing the term 'test'
> translated into: Arabic,
> Persian, Chinese (simplified and traditional),
> Russian, Hindi, Greek,
> Korean, Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil. Following this
> ICANN Board
> approval, the delegation request will now go through
> standard IANA
> procedures for insertion of top-level domains into
> the root zone. The
> technical evaluations of IDN TLDs and their
> usability in various
> applications will proceed following their
> delegation.
>
> This is a major milestone in the IDN Program Plan
> and signals a
> significant step forward towards
> Internationalization of the DNS. It is
> currently anticipated that delegation of these TLDs
> and the evaluations,
> as described in the plan, will commence in September
> 2007. More
> information about this project will be made
> available at
> http://icann.org/topics/idn. If you have any
> questions about ICANN's IDN
> Program please contact Tina Dam, IDN Program
> Director at tina.dam at icann.org.
>
> The final version of the IDN .test Evaluation Plan
> can be viewed here.
> [PDF, 220K]
>
> --
> Glen de Saint Géry
> GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
> gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
> http://gnso.icann.org
>




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