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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Baher, many thanks for the notes ..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>--Manal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
arabic-vip-bounces@icann.org [mailto:arabic-vip-bounces@icann.org] <b>On Behalf
Of </b>baher.esmat<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 13, 2011 8:21 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> arabic-vip@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [arabic-vip] Notes form today's call - Monday 13-Jun<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>All,<br>
<br>
Again my apologies for the poor quality of the call today. I’m going to check
if we have better options for future calls. <br>
<br>
Here is my notes from today’s call, and since my line quality was not any
better than yours, I may have missed some of what you’ve said. Please feel free
to correct me. Also, those who had questions or comments during the call and
were not able to bring them up, feel free to do so here on the list. <br>
<br>
Monday 13 June, 2011 – 15:00-16:00 UTC <br>
<br>
Present on the call: <br>
Arabic case study team: Sarmad Hussein, Raed Al-Fayez, Mohamed El-Bashir, Manal
Ismail, Khaled Koubaa, Huba Sarfraz, Fahd Batayneh, Behnam Esfahbod, Iftikhar
Shah, Alireza Saleh<br>
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ICANN staff/consultants: Dennis Jennings, Andrew Sullivan, Kim Davies,
Francisco Arias, Baher Esmat</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Dennis
Jennings acknowledged the number and quality of people who volunteered to
participate in the Arabic case study. He introduced ICANN staff who will
be supporting the Arabic team, and announced that ictQatar had been
selected as a local host for the Arabic case study. Dennis talked briefly
to the project, its scope and deliverables. Dennis asked Andrew Sullivan
to elaborate on the technical problem of having multiple TLDs acting the
same. </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Andrew
said that there are a couple of DNS aliasing technologies but neither of
which works at the top level. There is a very little prospect for a
solution that allows multiple TLDs to act exactly the same way. It might
be possible to invent such a solution but time to develop it and implement
it at the scale of the Internet would be really long. </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Dennis
talked to the timeline from Singapore until we get the report published in
Dec 2011. </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Sarmad
Hussain asked about the agenda of the two plenary sessions on Saturday in
Singapore. </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Dennis
said ICANN project team have been working on two documents: one on
definitions or glossary of terms; and the other one on list of initial
questions on issues related to variants. If we can reach agreement on
those two documents in Singapore that would be great. Dennis said that the
two documents should be posted before Singapore meeting. Dennis asked
Andrew if he could talk a bit to the document on definitions. </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Andrew
said that the objective is to come up with a set of terminology that will
be common for all teams. The document uses terminology that is already
used by IETF, UNICODE, etc., but there are few cases where we have
to use new terms. We have to make sure that everyone is using the same
terms. </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Dennis
confirmed that the agenda of the plenary session will be circulated to the
teams beforehand. </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Sarmad
said he is going to draft an agenda for the team’s meeting on Saturday and
send it to the list. Sarmad asked if anyone has suggestions for topics to
discuss during the meeting. </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Mohamed
El-Bashir suggested to spend sometime during the meeting on experiences of
the Registries (ccTLD) in dealing with variants at the different levels. </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Sarmad
suggested that the team should also look into the definition document
(glossary of terms) and see if there is something in particular in
relation to Arabic the team needs to address. The team should list issues
which are known from past work (i.e. ASIWG). The team should also discuss
working methods and schedule. </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Dennis
noted that one of the key outcomes from Singapore is for each team to have
a detailed work plan. </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Sarmad
asked Dennis to provide contact information of the focal point at ictQatar
who will be coordinating with the team. </span><o:p></o:p></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br>
Actions:<br>
Baher to circulate the agenda of the Saurday’s plenary sessions as soon as its
finalized. <br>
Baher to circulate the documents on definitions and questions as soon as they
are finalized. <br>
Baher to provide the contacts of the focal point at ictQatar. <br>
Sarmad to draft an agenda of the team’s meeting in Singapore. <br>
Baher to circulate notes. <br>
<br>
As said, please feel free to send more comments and questions to the list. <br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Baher</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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