[vip] FOR COMMENT: Interim Report Examining User Experience Implication of Active Variants

[Steve Sheng]

Dear VIP colleagues,

  This is an invitation to comment on the recently published interim
report examining user experience implications of active variants.

  To better understand and address the challenges surrounding the
activation of variant internationalized top-level domains (IDNs), this
interim report:

  1) summarizes and compares, from a user experience and registry
management perspective, variant practices in several ccTLD registries,
  2) proposes a set of guiding principles to define an acceptable user
experience, and
  3) identifies how various user communities (e.g., end users,
system/network administrators, application developers, registrants,
registrars and registries) will be impacted by active variant top-level
domains.

  The interim report is published for public comment thirty (30) days
(plus 21-day reply period) and is to be followed by the final report, to
be published within ninety (90) days after the closure of the public
comment forum. The final report will incorporate the community input with
proposed guidelines and recommendations for active variant TLDs.

 Details of the report and how to comment are listed below:

  
http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/interim-variant-ux-23oct12-en.h
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Kind regards, 
Steve Sheng
ICANN
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