[vip] FW: ICANN News Alert -- Call for Volunteers: Developing the Process for Root IDN Table Creation and Maintenance

[Francisco Arias]

The email below may be of interest to you.

Regards,

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Francisco.


On 6/18/12 1:24 PM, "ICANN News Alert" <communications at icann.org> wrote:

> ICANN News Alert 
>  <http://www.icann.org/>
> News Alert
> http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-18jun12-en.htm
> 
> Call for Volunteers: Developing the Process for Root IDN Table Creation and
> Maintenance
> 18 June 2012
> 
> * Deadline for responses is 13 July 2012
> 
> ICANN is seeking volunteers to work on advancing IDN capabilities in the DNS.
> The project 2.1 "Root IDN Table Process" part of the IDN Variant TLD Program,
> is designed to develop, in consultation with the community, the process to
> define:
> * allowed code points,
> * corresponding variant code points, and
> * related allowed states for IDN Variant TLDs.
> ICANN is soliciting participation from volunteers with the following areas of
> expertise: IDNA, DNS, Linguistics/Unicode, Policy.
> 
> The project team will include additional consultant expertise to help in the
> process.
> 
> ICANN has a limited budget to support team meetings such as travel,
> accommodation, and other expenses.
> General responsibilities for volunteers:
> * Contribute to developing the Process for Root IDN Table Creation and
> Maintenance 
> * Research and provide input on issues discussed during meetings
> * Attend two face-to-face meetings (likely during the last week of August in
> Los Angeles, US, and mid-October 2012 in Toronto, Canada)
> * Participate in regular teleconferences (time to be determined)
> * Expected time commitment of 2 to 4 hours per week during a 4-month period
> IDNA Expertise qualifications:
> * Expertise with IDNA and preferably active on internationalization work
> * Participation in relevant IDNA working groups
> DNS Expertise qualifications:
> * Expertise with DNS standards
> * Active in related DNS technical fora (e.g., IETF DNSext, DNSop)
> Linguistics/Unicode expertise qualifications:
> * Expertise in linguistics
> * Familiarity with Unicode
> Policy expertise qualifications:
> * Participation in ICANN's policy development process; or
> * Have participated in, at least, one ICANN working group, preferably on IDN
> related issues 
> Selection and Recruitment Process for Case Study Members:
> * Indications of interest should be sent to idnvarianttlds at icann.org no later
> than 13 July 2012.
> * Interested experts are invited to submit a résumé (Curriculum Vitae) and an
> expression of interest statement demonstrating how they meet the
> qualifications for one or more of the areas of expertise specified above.
> * The ICANN IDN Variant TLD Program team will select the team members ensuring
> a diverse composition of the members in terms of language/script communities
> represented. 
> * Applicants will be notified no later than 30 July 2012.
> Background on the IDN Variant TLD Program
> On 20 April 2011, ICANN announced the IDN Variant Issues Project to explore
> the benefits and risks associated with the potential inclusion of IDN variant
> TLDs in the DNS root zone. This project was initiated in response to a 2010
> ICANN Board of Directors resolution
> <http://icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-25sep10-en.htm#2.5> .
> Two phases of the project have been completed to date.
> 
> Phase I involved the formation of six case study teams for the Arabic,
> Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek and Latin scripts. These teams were
> comprised of community experts with support from ICANN that worked on
> identifying issues related to IDN variant TLDs for each particular script,
> resulting in the publication in October 2011 of six individual reports
> detailing their findings.
> 
> Phase II focused on integrating those six case study reports into the
> Integrated Issues Report. To complete this phase, ICANN formed a coordination
> team comprised of experts from each of the case study teams. The coordination
> team advised ICANN on completing the Integrated Issues Report, which
> summarizes and categorizes the various issues related to the identification
> and management of IDN variant TLDs.
> 
> The next phase (phase III) outlined in the proposed program plan
> <http://icann.org/en/news/public-comment/idn-variant-tld-revised-program-plan-
> 04may12-en.htm>  includes a number of activities resulting from the issues
> identified in the final Integrated Issues Report
> <http://icann.org/en/resources/idn/idn-vip-integrated-issues-final-clean-20feb
> 12-en.pdf>  [PDF, 2.15 MB]. The work is now focused on using the approach
> outlined in the Integrated Issues Report to define milestones that must be
> completed to manage the implementation of IDN variant TLDs.
> 
> The goal of the program is to define the necessary processes that must be in
> place to enable the management of variant TLDs. This incorporates the creation
> and maintenance of IDN tables for the root zone, and updating operational
> processes as appropriate to allow for the implementation of the IDN variant
> TLDs.
> 
> 
>  
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