Fwd: [liaison6c] IDN Variant TLD Program Update

[Robin Gross]

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> From: Glen de Saint Géry <Glen at icann.org>
> Date: August 25, 2012 2:33:41 AM PDT
> To: liaison6c <liaison6c at gnso.icann.org>
> Subject: [liaison6c] IDN Variant TLD Program Update
>
>
> https://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-23aug12- 
> en.htm
> IDN Variant TLD Program Update
>
> 23 August 2012
> The IDN Variant TLD Program has the following two updates:
>
> 1.     Volunteer Team formed to assist the development of the Label  
> Generation Ruleset Process for the Domain Name System (DNS) Root Zone
>
> ICANN is pleased to announce the formation of a global volunteer  
> team, comprised of community experts, who will work with ICANN on  
> the project to define the Label Generation Ruleset Process for the  
> DNS root zone. This project is part of the IDN Variant TLD Program  
> (see below) that is intended to lead to the delegation of IDN  
> Variant TLDs.  Delegation of these types of IDN TLDs is expected to  
> broaden global participation in the domain name system, but must be  
> accomplished in a way that ensures good user experience.
>
> This particular project will develop  the process to define allowed  
> code points, corresponding exchangeable variant code points, and  
> related allowed states for IDN Variant TLDs.
>
> The project requires significant technical expertise and the  
> individual members of the volunteer team (listed below) possess  
> capabilities in IDNA, Domain Name System, Linguistics, Unicode and  
> Policy Development.
>
> The volunteer team will undertake the work through periodic  
> teleconference calls and two face-to-face meetings. The first  
> meeting will be on 29-30 August 2012 in Los Angeles, United States.  
> The second two-day working session is planned during the ICANN  
> meeting in Toronto, Canada. There will be an open public session in  
> the Toronto meeting at which ICANN staff and volunteer team  
> representatives will present an update on the progress and answer  
> questions.
>
> The volunteer team is comprised of the following members from 18  
> countries and territories:
>
> Fahd A. Batayneh
> Chris Dillon
> Neha Gupta
> Sarmad Hussain
> Akshat Joshi
> Daniel Kalchev
> Yoav Keren
> Dmitry Kohmanyuk
> Mahesh Kulkarni
> Nadya Morozova
> Panagiotis Papaspiliopoulos
> Alireza Saleh
> Vaggelis Segredakis
> James Seng
> Vladimir Shadrunov
> Syed Iftikhar H.  Shah
> Will Shorter
> Alexei Sozonov
> Mirjana Tasic
> Joseph Yee
> Yoshiro Yoneya
> Zhoucai (Joe) Zhang
> Linlin Zhou
> Team Observers:
> Rinalia Abdul Rahim
> Edmon Chung
> Raymond Doctor
>
> 2.     Updated IDN Variant TLD Program posted
>
> ICANN has updated the IDN Variant TLD Program Plan [PDF, 576 KB]  
> that describes the projects that are intended to lead to the  
> delegation of IDN variant TLDs. The plan defines the processes that  
> must be in place to enable the delegation and management of IDN  
> Variant TLDs.
>
> Two previous versions of the plan have been posted for public  
> comment and discussed with the community during the ICANN meeting  
> in Costa Rica in March 2012. This latest version reflects the  
> latest public input.
>
> The Program follows on from the IDN Variant Issues Project that  
> completed its work with the publication of the final Integrated  
> Issues Report [PDF, 2.15 MB] on 20 February 2012.
>
> Interested members of the community can receive updates and  
> participate in the discussion of the variant work by subscribing to  
> the vip at icann.org mailing list (https://mm.icann.org/mailman/ 
> listinfo/vip) or by visiting the Community Wiki at: https:// 
> community.icann.org/display/VIP/
>
>
>
> Glen de Saint Géry
> GNSO Secretariat
> gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org
> http://gnso.icann.org
>




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