[bc-gnso] ALERTS From the Secretariat: Variant Issues Project -- Devanagari Case Study Team Issues Report

[Benedetta Rossi <secretariat-bc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-03oct11-en.htm
Variant Issues Project -- Devanagari Case Study Team Issues ReportComment 
Period Deadlines (*)Important Information LinksPublic Comment BoxOpen Date:3 
October 2011To Submit Your Comments (Forum)Close Date:14 November 2011Time 
(UTC):23:59View Comments SubmittedSection I: Description, Explanation, and 
PurposeAs described in earlier announcements on this topic, the benefits and 
risks associated with the potential delegation of Variant TLDs have been widely 
discussed and solutions are being pursued.ICANN is publishing today the issues 
report completed by the Devanagari case study team, for public comment. In 
accordance with the Variant Issues Project [PDF, 195 KB], ICANN has conducted 
six case studies of individual scripts to investigate any issues that need to 
be resolved to facilitate a good user experience for IDN variant 
TLDs.Individual case studies for the Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, 
Greek, and Latin scripts have been undertaken. Each study, carried out by a 
volunteer community study team with help from ICANN staff, concentrates on 
specific issues that are relevant to the individual scripts.It is expected that 
the results of the case studies will play a crucial role in the identification 
of solutions towards the delegation of IDN variant TLDs. With these individual 
case studies being completed, a team comprised of representatives from the case 
study teams and ICANN will develop a single, integrated issues report to be 
published in December 2011. After that, work on developing solutions can 
proceed as a second phase.Public comment on these reports will inform the 
formulation of the combined issues report. The public comment forum is open 
through 14 November 2011.Section II: BackgroundOn 25 September 2010 the Board 
of Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) 
directed the CEO "to develop an issues report identifying what needs to be done 
with the evaluation, possible delegation, allocation and operation of gTLDs 
containing variant characters IDNs as part of the new gTLD process in order to 
facilitate the development of workable approaches to the deployment of gTLDs 
containing variant characters IDNs." 
(http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-25sep10-en.htm-2.5)In response 
ICANN has conducted six case studies of individual scripts to investigate any 
issues associated with delegating and using IDN variant TLDs that need to be 
resolved to facilitate a good user experience.The original Variant Issues 
Project proposal [PDF, 195 KB] was published on 20 April 2011.Section III: 
Document and Resource LinksDocument posted for public comment: Devanagri Case 
Study Team Report [PDF, 462 KB]Section IV: Additional InformationNext steps: 
ICANN will complete a consolidated issues report that will summarize and 
synthesize the issues identified by the case study teams. The group's work in 
preparation of this consolidated report is scheduled to start in October at the 
ICANN public meeting in Dakar, Senegal.Staff Contact:Naela 
SarrasEmail:naela.sarras@xxxxxxxxx

Kind Regards,

Benedetta Rossi
BC Secretariatwww.bizconst.orgsecretariat-bc@xxxxxxxxxxx