[soac-newgtldapsup-wg] Fwd: ICANN News Alert -- Call for Community Volunteers for IDN Variant TLD Case Study Teams

[Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Colleagues,

This is something of an FYI. Due to personal time commitments I was 
unable to respond to Dennis Jennings' invitation to comment during the 
initial public comments period, though I will finish up my notes by 
Monday and send them to Dennis.
A portion of the use case requirement(s) this study will attempt to 
clarify has been discussed previously, in the IDNAbis and DNSEXT 
working groups of the IETF, to which I contribute, and is specific to 
what is called "clone" or similar. That use case (or cases, as the 
meaning of "clone" may not be uniform over all scripts) attempts to 
simply the management of two or more mappings so that a single 
resource (resolution) exists for multiple labels (domains), either 
through a DNS protocol extension, or through easy to manage 
administrative means.
This is distinct from many of the use cases I've mentioned, now in the 
comments to the current JAS draft, as in general, a registry 
supporting two or more name spaces in one or more scripts for a single 
purpose, will not seek to have two or more distinct labels map to an 
identical resource.
To put it more abstractly, the ICANN study appears to be pursuing an 
inquiry into equivalence classes in coded character sets, and the 
"IDN" purpose that has been discussed within the JAS has been centered 
on what a service requirement is for linguistically plural 
communities, and how, given some constraints, that service requirement 
can be met.
So as I mentioned above, this is something of an FYI.

Eric

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        ICANN News Alert -- Call for Community Volunteers for IDN
Variant TLD Case Study Teams
Date:   Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:46:10 -0400
From:   ICANN News Alert <communications@xxxxxxxxx>
To:     ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



ICANN <http://www.icann.org/>


    News Alert

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-20apr11-en.htm

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    Call for Community Volunteers for IDN Variant TLD Case Study Teams

20 April 2011

The delegation and management of variant TLDs remains an important
issue. The ICANN community seeks to develop solutions to enable the
delegation of Variant TLDs for the benefit of users around the world.

After consultation with the community, today ICANN outlines its
approach to move forward by publishing the Final Proposal for the IDN
Variant TLDs Issues Project
<http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/idn-variant-tlds-delegation-20apr11-en.pdf> 

[PDF, 195 KB] and the Call for Volunteers
<http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/idn-variant-tlds-call-for-volunteers-case-study-teams-20apr11-en.pdf> 

[PDF, 112 KB].

The Project will undertake work to identify issues associated with the
beneficial and safe delegation of IDN variant TLDs through six case
studies include the following scripts: Arabic, Chinese (Traditional
and Simplified), Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, and Latin.

Each team will be comprised of the following: team coordinator,
community representatives, linguistic experts, DNS and IDNA experts,
security & scalability experts, policy experts, and registry/registrar
operations experts. The call for volunteer document describes the
details of expertise needed, as well as the volunteer selection process.

Successful completion of the project depends on having team members
with the right skills in each of the six case studies to perform the
substantive work. Therefore ICANN, through its supporting
organizations and advisory committees, and through its contacts with
the international Internet community, is soliciting the participation
of community volunteers in each of the six case study teams.

Interested experts are invited to submit their résumé and an
expression of interest statement demonstrating how they meet the
qualifications for one or other of the expertise areas in a specific
case study. Applications should be sent to idnvarianttlds@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:idnvarianttlds@xxxxxxxxx> no later than 19 May 2011.

Additionally, ICANN would welcome proposals from organizations
interested in volunteering to provide local host facilities to each of
the six IDN Variant Issues Project case study teams. Local host
organizations are expected to provide meeting and other facilities to
support the case studies work. However, it should be emphasized that
it is not necessary to have a local host organization for a case study
to proceed. Interested organizations should send an expression of
interest to idnvarianttlds@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:idnvarianttlds@xxxxxxxxx>
no later than 19 May 2011.



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