[governance] -- IDN Variant TLD Program Update

Fri Aug 24 02:01:11 EDT 2012

Dear All,

It is pleasing to see the global volunteers comprising of experts that are
making a difference to enable people to access the Internet in their native
scripts. Their work is important as they will be defining the Label
Generation Ruleset Process for the DNS root zone Some of these volunteers
are in the IGC and frequent contributors to the list. For more info, see
below:

Sala

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Date: Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:09 PM
Subject: ICANN News Alert -- IDN Variant TLD Program Update
To: salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com

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 <http://www.icann.org/>[image: ICANN] IDN Variant TLD Program Update

23 August 2012

The IDN Variant TLD Program has the following two updates:

   1.

    *Volunteer Team formed to assist the development of the Label
   Generation Ruleset Process for the Domain Name System (DNS) Root Zone*

   ICANN is pleased to announce the formation of a global volunteer team,
   comprised of community experts, who will work with ICANN on the project to
   define the Label Generation Ruleset Process for the DNS root zone. This
   project is part of the IDN Variant TLD Program (see below) that is intended
   to lead to the delegation of IDN Variant TLDs. Delegation of these types of
   IDN TLDs is expected to broaden global participation in the domain name
   system, but must be accomplished in a way that ensures good user experience.

   This particular project will develop the process to define allowed code
   points, corresponding exchangeable variant code points, and related allowed
   states for IDN Variant TLDs.

   The project requires significant technical expertise and the individual
   members of the volunteer team (listed below) possess capabilities in IDNA,
   Domain Name System, Linguistics, Unicode and Policy Development.

   The volunteer team will undertake the work through periodic
   teleconference calls and two face-to-face meetings. The first meeting will
   be on 29-30 August 2012 in Los Angeles, United States. The second two-day
   working session is planned during the ICANN meeting in Toronto, Canada.
   There will be an open public session in the Toronto meeting at which ICANN
   staff and volunteer team representatives will present an update on the
   progress and answer questions.

   The volunteer team is comprised of the following members from 18
   countries and territories:

   Fahd A. Batayneh
   Chris Dillon
   Neha Gupta
   Sarmad Hussain
   Akshat Joshi
   Daniel Kalchev
   Yoav Keren
   Dmitry Kohmanyuk
   Mahesh Kulkarni
   Nadya Morozova
   Panagiotis Papaspiliopoulos
   Alireza Saleh
   Vaggelis Segredakis
   James Seng
   Vladimir Shadrunov
   Syed Iftikhar H. Shah
   Will Shorter
   Alexei Sozonov
   Mirjana Tasic
   Joseph Yee
   Yoshiro Yoneya
   Zhoucai (Joe) Zhang
   Linlin Zhou
   Team Observers:
   Rinalia Abdul Rahim
   Edmon Chung
   Raymond Doctor
    2.

    *Updated IDN Variant TLD Program posted*

   ICANN has updated the IDN Variant TLD Program
Plan<http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/idn-variant-tld-updated-plan-23aug12-en.pdf>that
describes the projects that are intended to lead to the delegation of
   IDN variant TLDs. The plan defines the processes that must be in place to
   enable the delegation and management of IDN Variant TLDs.

   Two previous versions of the plan have been posted for public
comment<http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/idn-variant-tld-revised-program-plan-04may12-en.htm>and
discussed with the community during the ICANN meeting in Costa Rica in
   March 2012. This latest version reflects the latest public input.

   The Program follows on from the IDN Variant Issues Project that
   completed its work with the publication of the final Integrated Issues
   Report<http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/idn-vip-integrated-issues-final-clean-20feb12-en.pdf>on
20 February 2012.

   Interested members of the community can receive updates and participate
   in the discussion of the variant work by subscribing to the
vip at icann.orgmailing list (
   https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/vip) or by visiting the Community
   Wiki at: https://community.icann.org/display/VIP/

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