[council] IDN Session in Cartagena

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-4-15nov10-en.htm

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IDN Session in Cartagena

15 November 2010

ICANN is pleased to release a draft of updated IDN Guidelines for discussion 
and to inform an IDN session at the upcoming meeting in Cartagena. The session 
is intended to serve as an informational interaction between all those 
interested in IDN registrations, and with a focus on the recently revised IDNA 
protocol.

In the session, various TLD registry representatives with IDN expertise will 
provide recommendations and experiences with implementation of IDNA protocol 
and IDN Guidelines. The session is intended to provide practical guidance for 
registries and registrars for the transition to the new IDNA protocol.

The IDNA protocol is the technical standard that provides a basis for the 
implementation of IDNs for TLD registries, registrars and any software 
developers that wish to make IDNs available for their customers. The IDNA 
protocol references and some more details about the revision can be found here: 
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/rfcs.htm

The IDN Guidelines contains additional recommendations for practical 
implementation efforts of IDNs for all TLD registries and registrars. They are 
a requirement for both gTLD registries that support IDNs, and IDN ccTLD 
registries.

The IDN Guidelines Revision Working Group (comprised of gTLD and ccTLD 
registries with IDN experience) has met via telephone conference meetings 
during the revision of the IDNA protocol, to ensure that the IDN Guidelines 
would be revised adequately to reflect the IDNA protocol revision. These 
meetings have resulted in a discussion draft version of the IDN Guidelines, 
published here to enable discussions at the upcoming session in Cartagena.
Taking input from the session in Cartagena, the WG will meet to amend the 
discussion draft IDN Guidelines. Once agreed to by the WG members the revised 
version of the IDN Guidelines will be released for public comments. When 
settled by the community, the ICANN Board will consider the next official 
version of the IDN Guidelines for approval.

The current version of the IDN Guidelines is available here: 
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/implementation-guidelines.htm

The discussion draft IDN Guidelines is available here: 
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/idn-guidelines-discussion-draft-15nov10-en.pdf

Additional IDN sessions are scheduled for the Cartagena meeting. For final 
schedule and remote participation access information see: 
http://cartagena39.icann.org/sched-overview