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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-06oct11-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-06oct11-en.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.5pt'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#424242;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=709 style='width:531.75pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;border-top-left-radius: 5px 5px;border-top-right-radius: 5px 5px;border-bottom-right-radius: 5px 5px;border-bottom-left-radius: 5px 5px'><tr style='background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin: initial;background-clip: initial;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial'><td colspan=5 style='border:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;background:#003366;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:white'>Variant Issues Project -- Cyrillic Case Study Team Issues Report<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=4 rowspan=2 style='border:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-top:none;background:#F8F8F8;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Comment Period Deadlines </span></b><b><sup><span style='font-size:14.5pt'>(*)</span></sup></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-right:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;background:#F8F8F8;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#CC0000'>Important Information Links<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-right:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/idn-vip-cyrillic-06oct11-en.htm"><span style='color:#569FCC;text-decoration:none'>Public Comment Box</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-top:none;background:#F8F8F8;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><strong>Open Date:</strong><o:p></o:p></p></td><td colspan=3 style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-right:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>6 October 2011<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-right:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="mailto:idn-vip-cyrillic@icann.org"><span style='color:#569FCC;text-decoration:none'>To Submit Your Comments (Forum)</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-top:none;background:#F8F8F8;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><strong>Close Date:</strong><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=121 style='width:91.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-right:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>14 November 2011<o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=105 style='width:78.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-right:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;background:#F8F8F8;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><strong>Time (UTC):</strong><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=81 style='width:61.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-right:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>23:59<o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=283 style='width:212.15pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-right:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/idn-vip-cyrillic/"><span style='color:#569FCC;text-decoration:none'>View Comments Submitted</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=5 valign=top style='border:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-top:none;background:#F8F8F8;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><strong>Section I: Description, Explanation, and Purpose</strong><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=5 valign=top style='border:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0cm'>As described in earlier announcements on this topic, the benefits and risks associated with the potential delegation of Variant TLDs have been widely discussed and solutions are being pursued.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ICANN is publishing today the issues report completed by the Cyrillic case study team, for public comment. In accordance with <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/idn-variant-tlds-delegation-20apr11-en.pdf"><span style='color:#569FCC;text-decoration:none'>the Variant Issues Project</span></a> [PDF, 195 KB], ICANN has conducted six case studies of individual scripts to investigate any issues that need to be resolved to facilitate a good user experience for IDN variant TLDs.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0cm'>Individual case studies for the Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, and Latin scripts have been undertaken. Each study, carried out by a volunteer community study team with help from ICANN staff, concentrates on specific issues that are relevant to the individual scripts.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0cm'>It is expected that the results of the case studies will play a crucial role in the identification of solutions towards the delegation of IDN variant TLDs. With these individual case studies being completed, a team comprised of representatives from the case study teams and ICANN will develop a single, integrated issues report to be published in December 2011. After that, work on developing solutions can proceed as a second phase.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0cm'>Public comment on these reports will inform the formulation of the combined issues report. The public comment forum is open through 14 November 2011.<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=5 valign=top style='border:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-top:none;background:#F8F8F8;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><strong>Section II: Background</strong><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=5 valign=top style='border:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>On 25 September 2010 the Board of Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) directed the CEO "to develop an issues report identifying what needs to be done with the evaluation, possible delegation, allocation and operation of gTLDs containing variant characters IDNs as part of the new gTLD process in order to facilitate the development of workable approaches to the deployment of gTLDs containing variant characters IDNs." (<a href="http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-25sep10-en.htm#2.5"><span style='color:#569FCC;text-decoration:none'>http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-25sep10-en.htm#2.5</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0cm'>In response ICANN has conducted six case studies of individual scripts to investigate any issues associated with delegating and using IDN variant TLDs that need to be resolved to facilitate a good user experience.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The original <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/idn-variant-tlds-delegation-20apr11-en.pdf"><span style='color:#569FCC;text-decoration:none'>Variant Issues Project proposal</span></a> [PDF, 195 KB] was published on 20 April 2011.<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=5 valign=top style='border:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-top:none;background:#F8F8F8;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><strong>Section III: Document and Resource Links</strong><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=5 valign=top style='border:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Document posted for public comment: <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/cyrillic-vip-issues-report-06oct11-en.pdf"><span style='color:#569FCC;text-decoration:none'>Cyrillic Case Study Team Report</span></a> [PDF, 1.02 MB]<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=5 valign=top style='border:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-top:none;background:#F8F8F8;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><strong>Section IV: Additional Information</strong><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=5 valign=top style='border:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Next steps: ICANN will complete a consolidated issues report that will summarize and synthesize the issues identified by the case study teams. The group's work in preparation of this consolidated report is scheduled to start in October at the ICANN public meeting in Dakar, Senegal.<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td width=118 valign=top style='width:88.85pt;border:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-top:none;background:#F8F8F8;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><strong>Staff Contact:</strong><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=226 colspan=2 valign=top style='width:169.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-right:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Patrick Jones<o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=81 valign=top style='width:61.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-right:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;background:#F8F8F8;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><strong>Email:</strong><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=283 valign=top style='width:212.15pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;border-right:solid #EFEFEF 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:patrick.jones@icann.org?subject=More%20information%20on%20the%20Variant%20Issues%20Project%20--%20Cyrillic%20Case%20Study%20Team%20Issues%20Report%20public%20comment%20period"><span style='color:#569FCC;text-decoration:none'>patrick.jones@icann.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><div><p class=MsoPlainText>Glen de Saint Géry<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>GNSO Secretariat<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org">gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://gnso.icann.org">http://gnso.icann.org</a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>