[bc-gnso] ALERTS From the Secretariat: Coordination Team Formed for IDN Variant Issues Project

[Benedetta Rossi <secretariat-bc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-4-03oct11-en.htm
Coordination Team Formed for IDN Variant Issues Project3 October 2011The 
benefits and risks associated with the potential delegation of variant TLDs 
have been widely discussed. On 20 April 2011, ICANN announced the initiation of 
the IDN Variant Issues Project. This project is dedicated to identifying the 
issues involved in the delegation and use of IDN Variant TLDs.To achieve that 
goal, on 9 June 2011, ICANN announced the formation of six case study teams – 
Arabic, Devanagari, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek and Latin scripts. Since then, 
these teams have been working hard on identifying issues involved in IDN 
Variant TLDs in their particular scripts with the expectation that each of 
these teams will publish their reports prior to the ICANN meeting in Dakar 
(24-28 October). After that, a final integrated issues report will be 
published, describing the challenges associated.Figure 1 – The project 
incorporates individual script case studies, a synthesis of the issues, and an 
additional phase toward developing solutions.Today, the first of the reports 
are being published for public comment:Chinese Case Study ReportDevanagari Case 
Study ReportThe remaining case study reports (Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek and 
Latin) are expected shortly and will be posted for public comment.Additionally, 
we are pleased to announce the formation of a team, comprised of experts from 
the case study teams, who will advise ICANN in completing 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.The 
individual members of the issues report coordination team (listed below) have 
expertise in the areas of: DNS, IDNA, linguistics, security and scalability, 
policy, registry/registrar operations, and community representation.An all-day 
working session of the coordination team members only is being planned for the 
Dakar meeting, followed by an open public session at which representatives from 
the case study teams and the ICANN project team will present the case studies 
and provide an update on the consolidated issues report.Interested members of 
the community can receive updates and participate in the discussions of this 
work by subscribing tovip@xxxxxxxxx mailing list 
(https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/vip) or by 
visitinghttps://community.icann.org/display/VIP/.Issues Report Coordination 
TeamHarald AlvestrandRaiomond DoctorNeha GuptaSarmad HussainManal IsmailAkshat 
JoshiCary KarpMahesh KulkarniXiaodong LeeEvangelos MelagrakisPanagiotis 
PapaspiliopoulosVaggelis SegredakisJames SengVladimir ShadrunovAlexei 
SozonovJoseph Yee
Kind Regards,

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