[arabic-vip] Welcome to the Arabic case study mailing list

[Baher Esmat]

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Dear Arabic Script team members:

Thank you again for offering your time and expertise to volunteer on the Arabic script case study team. Following the submission of your statements of interest and resumes, we have now formed each of six the case study teams. This email introduces the Arabic script team members, and provides some logistic support information and important reminders.

Team Membership

The Arabic team is comprised of the following members:

1. Sarmad Hussain (Coordinator)
2. Abdulaziz Al-Zoman
3. Behnam Esfahbod
4. Fahd A. Batayneh
5. Huda Sarfraz
6. Khaled Koubaa
7. Manal Ismail
8. Mohamed El-Bashir
9. Raed Al-Fayez
10. Siavash Shahshahani
11. Syed Iftikhar H. Shah

In addition, the following ICANN staff/consultants will also participate in the discussions as subject matter experts:

Andrew Sullivan – IDNA and DNS expert consultant
Nicholas Ostler - Linguistic consultant
Kim Davies - Security expert from staff
Francisco Arias - Registry operations expert from staff
Steve Sheng – Policy expert from staff

Case Study Support For the Arabic Team

Baher Esmat - Case study support staff

ICANN provides each team with a case study support staff. His role is to help the team and support the case study coordinator. The case study support staff’s responsibilities include:

1.    Work with the Case Study Coordinator to coordinate weekly or bi-weekly meetings of the case study team
2.    Be fully engaged in the discussions and have in-depth knowledge in the case
3.    Take notes for the meeting, verify notes and action items with Coordinator and distribute minutes to the rest of the team
4.    Ensure that subject matter experts are engaged in the team's discussion and are providing input where needed
5.    Investigate any open issues or questions raised by team members after each meeting
6.    Liaise with the community to ensure there is awareness of progress on the case study
7.    Stay aware of the final goal of the team (help produce a final report) and take the lead along with the case study coordinator to produce the report
8.    May need to help facilitate and attend a regional meeting where the team is gathering to ensure progress on case study

Logistic Support:

ICANN provides facilities for teleconference and remote participation, as well as mailing list and wiki management.

Mailing lists:

Similar to communications in IETF, ICANN will maintain two mailing lists:


 *   A closed mailing (this one), for your team’s use only.  Please note that even though this mailing list will only accept postings from team members, the archives will be openly available to anyone to read for transparency. Web page for this mailing list is available here: (https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/arabic-vip).
 *   An open mailing list, vip at icann.org, that is open to any interested community members. Case study members from all the cases are also already subscribed to the list. Webpage for this mailing list is available here: (https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/vip).

Remote Participation: Here is the URL (http://icann.adobeconnect.com/arabic-vip/) that will give you access to the Arabic Script Adobe Connect remote participation room for the Saturday, 18 June 2011, all-day work sessions in Singapore and on-going meetings, when needed.

Teleconference Support: ICANN will provide teleconference support for all the meetings. Detailed Information will be shared soon.

Wikispace: An ICANN Community wiki workspace for the IDN Variant TLDs Issues Project (https://community.icann.org/display/VIP) has been created. We encourage the team to use this tool to collaborate. If you do not have an account, please send an email to: community-help at icann.org.


What’s next?

First Call: I conferred with Sarmad about having a call with the team next week before 18-June meeting in Singapore, and Sarmad thought that would helpful. I can send a Doodle request separately to agree on date/time.

Singapore Meeting: There will be an all-day working session for the variant cases on Saturday June 18, that includes both plenary and break out sessions. Details will be sent out prior to the meeting.

Important Reminders:

If you have not already registered and you intend to participate, please go to the ICANN Singapore Meeting site (http://singapore41.icann.org/) and register; this will make your check-in easier once you arrive.

There is a lot of information here so please feel free to contact me at baher.esmat at icann.org should you have any questions or concerns.

Sincerely,

Baher Esmat
On behalf of ICANN IDN Variant TLDs Project

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