[council] Public Comment: Fast Track Proposed Solutions

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Public Comment: Fast Track Proposed Solutions 

18 February 2009

A public comment period opens today on a number of proposed implementation 
features in the "Fast Track" process, as well as an updated version of the Fast 
Track's Implementation Plan . 

The Fast Track is a mechanism to introduce a limited number of non-contentious 
internationalized country-code top level domain names (IDN ccTLDs) to the 
Internet. 

In the initial draft of the Fast Track Implementation Plan, a number of open 
issues were identified that require further input from the community and need 
to be resolved to complete the implementation. 

There are separate papers of proposed implementation details (listed below). 
The papers are based on comments and input received from the community, notably 
from meetings held at ICANN's international public meeting in Cairo in November 
2008. 

Along with the papers are: an updated Draft Implementation Plan; a document 
providing a consolidated overview of the comments received and document 
containing staff considerations regarding the comments received on the initial 
Draft Implementation Plan. This new version of the plan is intended to elicit 
further community feedback both during and after the ICANN meeting in Mexico 
City next month (1-6 March 2009). 

The public comment period that opened today covers both the Draft 
Implementation Plan and the papers. Comments received will be used to revise 
the plan in preparation of a Final Implementation Plan. The comment period ends 
on 6 April 2009. 

Please note that the papers listed below are proposed discussion drafts only. 
Potential IDN ccTLD requestors should not rely on any of the proposed included 
details as it remains subject to further consultation and revision. 

Please also note that it is expected there will be several updates to this 
announcement as papers are released as they are finalized and translated. 

The papers describe: 

1. Documentation of Responsibility between ICANN and prospective IDN ccTLD 
Managers [PDF, 156K]

2. Development and use of IDN tables and character variants for second and top 
level strings [PDF, 120K] 

Related links: 

Public comment period: http://forum.icann.org/lists/ft-implementation/

Revised Fast Track Draft Implementation Plan: (coming) 

Staff considerations on received comments: (coming) 

Working Group Final Report (with public comments): 
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/staff-considerations-idnc-wg-final-report-23oct08-en.pdf
 [PDF, 269K] 

Fast Track webpage: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/


Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
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