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lang="EN-US">IDN Variant TLD Program - Revised Program
Plan</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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May 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Top-Level
Domains<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-US">The purpose of this project is to resolve
many of the issues necessary to delegate variant TLDs.
The first IDN Variant Issues Project explored the
issues associated with the potential inclusion of IDN
variant TLDs in the DNS root zone, at the request of
the ICANN Board and the community. The first two
phases of the project have been completed with the
publication of the final Integrated Issues Report on
20 February 2012 and the project is now entering its
next phase. ICANN created a program plan for next
steps, posted it for public comment, and presented it
in a session at the ICANN meeting in Costa Rica in
March 2012. Based on the comments received to date,
the project plan has been updated, and the team is
seeking input on the revised plan during this public
comment period.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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