[Idn-wg] Announcement - Public Consultation on Procedure to Insert IDN Test Strings into the Root

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

ICANN Moves Forward Towards Introduction Of Internationalized Top  
Level Labels (IDNs) in the DNS
2 June 2007

Today, ICANN posted a set of draft procedures describing how IANA  
will manage the insertion, administration and removal of  
internationalized top-level labels (as delegated A-records) in the  
DNS root zone. These procedures are intended to guide an evaluation  
plan providing for the insertion and monitoring of sample IDNs into  
the root zone later this year.

This announcement includes the draft procedure itself (IANA Root Zone  
Procedures for Test IDN Deployment, and a draft paper (IDN TLD Root  
Server Performance / Tolerance) describing the negative impacts to  
the DNS (tolerance measure) that, if observed, would trigger an  
emergency revocation procedure. The revocation procedure provides for  
the rapid removal of IDNs from the root zone if these negative  
impacts rise to the level specified in the tolerance document. The  
Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC) is also analyzing the  
tolerance measure .

The public comment period is open until June 22, 2007 at 00:00 UTC.  
Following the public comment period ICANN staff will revise these  
documents and publish a final set of procedures that will be reviewed  
by ICANN Board of Directors at the ICANN Meeting in San Juan (25-29  
June 2007).  The procedure will be implemented according to standard  
processes for newly adopted or revisions to IANA services.

Public comments can be submitted to iana-idn-process at icann.org and  
reviewed at http://forum.icann.org/lists/iana-idn-process/.

Looking forward:

These papers are a corner piece in ICANN’s IDN Program that currently  
is developing an evaluation plan for insertion of a set of temporary  
internationalized top-level labels in the DNS. The evaluation plan  
will take into consideration all received advise and requests from  
the past several IDN workshops at ICANN meetings and other events.  
The evaluation plan will be posted for community review before it is  
finalized and implemented.  The evaluation plan will be posted prior  
to the ICANN meeting in San Juan that takes place on 25-29 June 2007.


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Regards,

Nick Ashton-Hart
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