[vip] IDN Variant TLD Program Update

[Francisco Arias]

Dear colleagues,

The below announcement may be of interest for you. We plan to post
periodic updates to this list, but also note that the rootLGR mailing
list, though closed-posting, has its archives open at:

http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/rootlgr/

Regards,

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Francisco Arias
gTLD Registry Technical Liaison
ICANN






>ICANN News Alert
>
>http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-23aug12-en.htm
>
>____________________________________
>
>
>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-progra
>m-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-clea
>n-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/