[council] Invitation to join the IDN variant TLD session in San Francisco

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Subject: Invitation to join the IDN variant TLD session in San Francisco


Dear members of the ICANN community,

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 in different regions. ICANN has publishing for 
public comment a Draft Proposal for an IDN Variant Issues Project - a proposal 
for moving this work forward. ( 
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-5-21feb11-en.htm)

At the upcoming San Francisco meeting, ICANN is planning to conduct a workshop 
to discuss the draft proposal. In this session, representatives from different 
language communities will also be invited to provide an overview of the 
potential issues with IDN variant TLDs.

If you are interested in this topic, we welcome your participation. Below 
please find the workshop details.


IDN Variant TLDs

Date:  Wed 16 Mar 2011 - 15:00 - 16:30
Room: Elizabethan A-C

Overview
In this session, we describe a proposed approach to identifying issues of 
delegating IDN variant TLDs through five case studies. The plan proposes the 
creation of teams composed of community experts in linguistics, DNS, registry 
operations, and policy. The session will seek to recruit interested persons for 
this effort.

Specifically, ICANN proposes to conduct five case studies (suggested cases are 
Chinese, Arabic, Latin, Indic, and Cyrillic) to investigate the set of issues 
that need to be resolved to facilitate a good user experience for IDN variant 
TLDs. From these five case studies, an Issues Report will be created. The 
corresponding Board resolution can be found here: 
http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-10dec10-en.htm#7).

In this session, we also invite representatives from IDN using communities to 
provide an overview of the potential issues with IDN variant TLDs.

Who Should Attend? | Anyone interested in IDN variants.

How to Participate Remotely?

Please refer to http://svsf40.icann.org/node/22193 for remote participation 
information.


Warm regards,
ICANN Policy Support