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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-20feb12-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-20feb12-en.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=title><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Final Integrated Issues Report Published and Proposed Project Plan for Next Steps is Now Open for Public Comment<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=docdate><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>20 February 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ICANN is pleased to announce the publication of the </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/idn-vip-integrated-issues-final-clean-20feb12-en.pdf"><span lang=EN-US>final Integrated Issues Report</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> [PDF, 2.15 MB] and the posting of the proposed </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/idn-vip-proposed-project-plan-20feb12-en.pdf"><span lang=EN-US>project plan</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> [PDF, 211 KB] for the next steps of the IDN Variant Issues Project for public comment. The report explores the issues associated with the potential inclusion of IDN variant TLDs in the DNS root zone. The report also includes recommendations for additional work for taking the issues identified in the report and identifying potential solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>On 23 December 2011, the IDN Variant Issues Team published the </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/idn-vip-integrated-issues-23dec11-en.pdf"><span lang=EN-US>draft Integrated Issues Report</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> [PDF, 1.06 MB] for public comment. The report has now been updated to reflect the community feedback and published as the final Integrated Issues Report to conclude the second phase of the project. A version of </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/idn-vip-integrated-issues-final-redline-20feb12-en.pdf"><span lang=EN-US>tracked changes</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> [PDF, 1.02 MB] from the draft report is also provided.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Report marks the completion of Phase II of the Variant Issues Project. Following the recommendations identified within, the project team has created a project proposed plan for the next steps of the project and seeks community feedback. The public comment box is available at: </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/idn-vip-proposed-project-plan-20feb12-en.htm"><span lang=EN-US>http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/idn-vip-proposed-project-plan-20feb12-en.htm</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The IDN Variant Issues Proposed Project Plan for Next Steps along with the final Integrated Issues Report will be presented to the community during the ICANN public meeting to be held in Costa Rica during March 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/idn-variant-tlds-delegation-20apr11-en.pdf"><span lang=EN-US>IDN Variant Issues Project</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> [PDF, 195 KB] was initiated by the ICANN Board of Directors in 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'>Glen de Saint Géry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'>GNSO Secretariat<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org"><span style='color:blue'>gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'><a href="http://gnso.icann.org"><span style='color:blue'>http://gnso.icann.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>