[vip] FW: ICANN News Alert -- Request for Proposal for LGR Tool Set

[Sarmad Hussain]

Dear All,



ICANN has released a RFP to develop the LGR Tool Set, which would allow 
creating, using and managing Label Generation Rulesets (LGRs). This tool will 
be released as open source for the community.



Regards,
Sarmad




News Alert


https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2015-03-19-en

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Request for Proposal for LGR Tool Set


19 March 2015

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") is seeking a 
provider to design and develop software for creating, using and managing Label 
Generation Rulesets (LGRs) based on a new machine readable format based on the 
formal representation available at 
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-davies-idntables.

ICANN anticipates a contract to be signed and work to begin no later than May 
5th 2015.

ICANN hosts a repository of language and script specific data through its IANA 
department which is used by registries to generate labels, generally known as 
IDN tables <https://www.iana.org/domains/idn-tables>  and now being referred 
to as Label Generation Rulesets (LGRs). A new machine readable XML-based 
format is currently being designed to organize and represent the LGR data. 
This format will also be used for the LGR for the Root Zone, for validating 
prospective top-level domain (TLD) labels and determining the variants of 
existing and prospective labels. The Root Zone LGR is currently being 
developed with the collaboration of various script communities (organized as 
script based Generation Panels).

ICANN intends to release this software with open source license for community 
use and also utilize it for internal operations.

For additional information and instructions for submitting responses please 
click here 
<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rfp-lgr-toolset-19mar15-en.zip> 
[ZIP, 994 KB].

Proposals should be submitted to LGRToolset-rfp at icann.org 
<mailto:LGRToolset-rfp at icann.org>  by 23:59 UTC on 5 April 2015.

RFP timeline at a glance:


Activity

Dates


RFP released to participants on

19 March 2015


Participants provide their intent to bid

25 March 2015 by 23:59 UTC


Participants submit any questions to ICANN

25 March 2015 by 23:59 UTC


ICANN responds to participant questions by

31 March 2015


Participant RFP proposals due

5 April 2015 by 23:59 UTC


Preliminary evaluation of responses

Week of April 6th


Target for participant presentations (finalists)

Week of April 13th


Target for Final evaluations and selection of Provider (includes contracting 
and award to participant)

Weeks of April 20th & 27th


Estimated start of implementation

5 May 2015



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