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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>We are pleased to share the news on the efforts of the Japanese community towards the development of the LGR for the Root Zone. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Best regards,<br>Sarmad<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> ICANN News Alert [mailto:communications@icann.org] <br><br></span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:8.0pt 8.0pt 8.0pt 8.0pt'><div><h2><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>News Alert<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in'><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-03-17-en"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-03-17-en</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='margin-top:15.0pt'><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div></div><h2 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Japanese Community Forms Generation Panel for Developing the Japanese Root Zone Label Generation Rules (LGR)<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>17 March 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>ICANN is pleased to announce that the Generation Panel for the Japanese Label Generation Rules (LGR) for the Root Zone has been seated.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Following the </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-07-11-en"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Call for Generation Panels to Develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>, on 6 February 2015 the Japanese community submitted to ICANN the </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/japanese-lgr-proposal-17mar15-en.pdf"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Proposal for Generation Panel for Japanese Label Generation Rules for the Root Zone</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> [PDF, 223 KB]. ICANN staff has reviewed the proposal including panel composition and scope, to ensure that requirements set forth in the </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/lgr-procedure-20mar13-en.pdf"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>LGR Procedure</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> [PDF, 772 KB], and in particular the criteria set forth in the </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-07-11-en"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Call for Generation Panels to Develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>, are fulfilled.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>On behalf of ICANN, we would like to use this opportunity to thank each of the members for offering their time and expertise to volunteer for the Japanese Generation Panel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>With composition and work plan approved, the Japanese Generation Panel will start its work on the label generation rules. According to the </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/lgr-procedure-20mar13-en.pdf"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>LGR Procedure</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> [PDF, 772 KB], the starting point of any Generation Panel's work is the Maximal Starting Repertoire (MSR), with its first version (</span><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-06-20-en"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>MSR-1</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>) released on 20 June 2014 and the second version (</span><a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/msr-2014-12-15-en"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>MSR-2</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>) currently released for community review. The full specification of Generation Panel's tasks can be found in the </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/lgr-procedure-20mar13-en.pdf"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>LGR Procedure</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> [PDF, 772 KB] in particular, Section B.3 "Variant Rule Generation Procedure".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>ICANN has provided a central public </span><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/croscomlgrprocedure/Japanese+GP"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>workspace</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> on the project website where Japanese Generation Panel composition, work plan updates, public reports, contact details, and any other relevant information will be included.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>As a reminder, and to highlight the importance of script community involvement required in the development of the IDN Root Zone LGR, we would like to reiterate the </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-07-11-en"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Call for Generation Panels to Develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>. A successful development of the Root Zone LGR depends on having Generation Panels for each script represented in the Root Zone. In addition to ongoing efforts with the Arabic, Armenian, Chinese and Japanese, Generation Panel formation is expected to cover other scripts including Bengali, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Myanmar, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Thai and Tibetan.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>For further information on how to form a Generation Panel, please refer to the </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-07-11-en"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Call for Generation Panels to Develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> and to the additional supporting documentation provided on the </span><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/croscomlgrprocedure/Root+Zone+LGR+Project"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Root Zone LGR Project website</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>. Individual interests may be emailed to </span><a href="mailto:idntlds@icann.org"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>idntlds@icann.org</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><em><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>About ICANN</span></em><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p><em><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>ICANN's mission is to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet. ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet's unique identifiers. ICANN doesn't control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesn't deal with access to the Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internet's naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet. 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