[council] IDN Variants: appointment of expert panels & background information

[Mary Wong]

Hi all

Here are the documents relating to the appointment of experts and advisors
for the IDN Variant Project:
* The call for experts to the 17 different Label Generation Ruleset (LGR)
Panels (one for each identified language/script) that are currently being
constituted, who will prepare a proposed LGR for that specific
language/script ­ and whose output will be reviewed and synthesized by an
Integration Panel -
http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/variant-tlds/lgr-procedure-20mar13-en.
pdf
* The call for advisors to the LGR Panels and the Integration Panels,
anticipating that ICANN staff will also provide administrative or policy
expertise on an as-needed basis to supplement that provided by the appointed
advisors - 
http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/variant-tlds/advisors-lgr-panels-06jun
13-en.pdf
* ICANN's announcement of who was selected for the Integration Panel and as
an advisor, noting that additional advisors, if needed, will be selected
based on the procedure (above) and on the Panel's request -
https://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-06sep13-en.htm
Hopefully these will provide you with the necessary information relating to
the scope and nature of the work of the Panels and the role of the advisors.
There is also background information to the Project generally, at
http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/variant-tlds

Let us know if and when the Council would like to schedule the proposed
"primer" on the IDN variant topic and ICANN's work on it, as well as the
first of the proposed regular updates on the status of the Panels and
Project. I've confirmed with our colleagues supporting the Project that the
former can also be done in the form of a community-wide webinar for the
GNSO, if preferred.

Thanks and cheers
Mary

Mary Wong
Senior Policy Director
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN)
Telephone: +1 603 574 4892
Email: mary.wong at icann.org

* One World. One Internet. *


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