[IDN-WG] IDN Variant TLD Program Update

[Rinalia Abdul Rahim]

ICANN News Alert

http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-23aug12-en.htm

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IDN Variant TLD Program Update

23 August 2012

The IDN Variant TLD Program has the following two updates:

        I. Volunteer Team formed to assist the development of the Label
Generation Ruleset Process for the Domain Name System (DNS) Root Zone

        ICANN is pleased to announce the formation of a global volunteer
team, comprised of community experts, who will work with ICANN on the
project to define the Label Generation Ruleset Process for the DNS root
zone. This project is part of the IDN Variant TLD Program (see below) that
is intended to lead to the delegation of IDN Variant TLDs.  Delegation of
these types of IDN TLDs is expected to broaden global participation in the
domain name system, but must be accomplished in a way that ensures good
user experience.

        This particular project will develop  the process to define allowed
code points, corresponding exchangeable variant code points, and related
allowed states for IDN Variant TLDs.

        The project requires significant technical expertise and the
individual members of the volunteer team (listed below) possess
capabilities in IDNA, Domain Name System, Linguistics, Unicode and Policy
Development.

        The volunteer team will undertake the work through periodic
teleconference calls and two face-to-face meetings. The first meeting will
be on 29-30 August 2012 in Los Angeles, United States. The second two-day
working session is planned during the ICANN meeting in Toronto, Canada.
There will be an open public session in the Toronto meeting at which ICANN
staff and volunteer team representatives will present an update on the
progress and answer questions.

        The volunteer team is comprised of the following members from 18
countries and territories:

        Fahd A. Batayneh
        Chris Dillon
        Neha Gupta
        Sarmad Hussain
        Akshat Joshi
        Daniel Kalchev
        Yoav Keren
        Dmitry Kohmanyuk
        Mahesh Kulkarni
        Nadya Morozova
        Panagiotis Papaspiliopoulos
        Alireza Saleh
        Vaggelis Segredakis
        James Seng
        Vladimir Shadrunov
        Syed Iftikhar H.  Shah
        Will Shorter
        Alexei Sozonov
        Mirjana Tasic
        Joseph Yee
        Yoshiro Yoneya
        Zhoucai (Joe) Zhang
        Linlin Zhou
        Team Observers:
        Rinalia Abdul Rahim
        Edmon Chung
        Raymond Doctor

        II. Updated IDN Variant TLD Program posted

        ICANN has updated the IDN Variant TLD Program Plan (
http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/idn-variant-tld-updated-plan-23aug12-en.pdf)
that describes the projects that are intended to lead to the delegation of
IDN variant TLDs. The plan defines the processes that must be in place to
enable the delegation and management of IDN Variant TLDs.

        Two previous versions of the plan have been posted for public
comment (
http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/idn-variant-tld-revised-program-plan-04may12-en.htm)
and discussed with the community during the ICANN meeting in Costa Rica in
March 2012. This latest version reflects the latest public input.

        The Program follows on from the IDN Variant Issues Project that
completed its work with the publication of the final Integrated Issues
Report (
http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/idn-vip-integrated-issues-final-clean-20feb12-en.pdf)
on 20 February 2012.

        Interested members of the community can receive updates and
participate in the discussion of the variant work by subscribing to the
vip at icann.org mailing list (https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/vip) or
by visiting the Community Wiki at: https://community.icann.org/display/VIP/


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