[council] Notice of Publication: Revised IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process Implementation Plan

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-15dec11-en.htm

Notice of Publication: Revised IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process Implementation Plan

15 December 2011

Following the ICANN Board's approval on 8 December 2011 of the amendment to the 
IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process Implementation Plan, ICANN is providing this 
notice of publication for the Revised Implementation Plan. This amendment was 
considered following guidance received from the ccNSO during the ICANN meeting 
in Dakar, Senegal.

Two versions are posted: 1) the revised IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process 
Implementation Plan 
(http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/idn-cctld-implementation-plan-15dec11-en.pdf
 [PDF, 851 KB]) and 2) a version that tracks the changes from the previous 
version 
(http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/idn-cctld-implementation-plan-redline-15dec11-en.pdf
 [PDF, 902 KB]). The community should take note that the original version of 
the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process Implementation Plan is now archived and 
superseded by the Revised Implementation Plan.

Background

On 26 October 2011, the ccNSO Council approved a 
resolution<http://ccnso.icann.org/node/28011> and communicated it in a 
letter<http://ccnso.icann.org/node/27947> from ccNSO Chair to ICANN Board Chair 
asking the Board to direct staff to amend the relevant sections of the IDN 
ccTLD Fast Track Implementation Plan. The amendment is to address specific 
cases when a requested IDN ccTLD string may be confusingly similar with the 
two-letter ASCII ccTLD corresponding to the same country or territory.

This work was developed out of the ccNSO Council 
Resolution<http://ccnso.icann.org/node/23715> from the ICANN meeting in San 
Francisco in March 2011. This resolution requested a sub-group of the IDN ccPDP 
Working Group 1 to develop, as soon as possible, guidelines (within the 
framework of the existing rules for the Fast Track) to improve the 
predictability of the evaluation process relating to string confusion as 
defined in the IDNC WG Final Report and the Final Implementation Plan, as 
adopted by the ICANN Board in November 2009.

ICANN conducted an initial review of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process and its 
implementation between October 2010 - January 2011. A summary and 
analysis<http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-8-21feb11-en.htm> 
was published in February and the Board acknowledged the Fast Track 
review<http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-18mar11-en.htm#8> at the 
ICANN meeting in March 2011.

The IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process Implementation Plan was approved by the ICANN 
Board at its meeting in Seoul, Republic of Korea in October 2009. A link to the 
original Implementation Plan may be found at: 
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/idn-cctld-implementation-plan-16nov09-en.pdf
 [PDF, 498 KB]


Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
http://gnso.icann.org