[council] IDN Variant TLD Case Study Update

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-3-09jun11-en.htm

IDN Variant TLD Case Study Update

9 June 2011

On April 20, 2011, ICANN announced its approach to move forward with the IDN 
Variant TLDs Issues Project by publishing the Final Proposal for the 
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]. This project is dedicated to identifying the issues involved in 
the delegation of IDN Variant TLDs.

Today, we are pleased to announce the formation of six case study teams, 
comprising a total of 66 experts from 29 countries and territories. In 
addition, six organizations are in the process of being selected to be local 
hosts for each of the case studies. A local host organization will provide 
meeting and other facilities to support the case studies work. A decision and 
announcement will follow shortly.

Individual members are listed at the end of this announcement and they offer 
expertise in the following areas: DNS, IDNA, linguistics, security & 
scalability, policy, registry/registrar operations, and community 
representatives.

On Saturday, 18 June 2011, all-day project team meetings are being planned in 
Singapore at which the case study teams will meet together in plenary sessions 
and in individual breakout working sessions.

Interested members of the community can receive updates and participate in the 
discussions of this work by subscribing to vip@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:vip@xxxxxxxxx> 
mailing list (https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/vip) or by visiting 
https://community.icann.org/display/VIP/.

Arabic Case Study

 1.  Sarmad Hussain (Coordinator)
 2.  Abdulaziz Al-Zoman
 3.  Behnam Esfahbod
 4.  Fahd A. Batayneh
 5.  Huda Sarfraz
 6.  Khaled Koubaa
 7.  Manal Ismail
 8.  Mohamed El-Bashir
 9.  Raed Al-Fayez
 10. Siavash Shahshahani
 11. Syed Iftikhar H. Shah

Chinese Case Study

 1.  Xiaodong Lee (Coordinator)
 2.  Chris Dillon
 3.  Hong Xue
 4.  James Seng
 5.  Jian Zhang
 6.  Joe Zhang
 7.  Jonathan Shea
 8.  Joseph Yee
 9.  June Seo
 10. Shianyong Tseng
 11. Wei Wang
 12. Yoshiro Yoneya

Cyrillic Case Study

 1.  Alexey Sozonov (Coordinator)
 2.  Alexei Mykhaylov
 3.  Alexey Ptashniy
 4.  Daniel Kalchev
 5.  Iliya Bazlyankov
 6.  Oksana Prykhodko
 7.  Saso Dimitrijoski
 8.  Sergey Sharikov
 9.  Vladimir Shadrunov

Devanagari Case Study

 1.  Dr. Govind (Coordinator)
 2.  Amardeep Singh Chawla
 3.  Bal Krishna Bal
 4.  Basanta shrestha
 5.  Bhavin Turakhia
 6.  James Galvin
 7.  Jitender Kumar
 8.  K. B. Narayanan
 9.  Kalyan Kale
 10. Mahesh Kulkarni
 11. Manish Dalal
 12. Prabhakar Kshotriya
 13. Pramod Pandey
 14. Raiomond Doctor
 15. Rajiv Kumar
 16. Satyendra Kumar Pandey
 17. Shashi Bharadwaj
 18. Tulika Pandey

Greek Case Study

 1.  Vaggelis Segredakis (Coordinator)
 2.  Asimina Giannopoulou
 3.  Catherine Tsapikidou
 4.  Evangelos Melagrakis
 5.  Fotia Panayiotou
 6.  George Papapavlou
 7.  Giannis Papaioannou
 8.  Panagiotis Papaspiliopoulos

Latin Case Study

 1.  Jothan Frakes (Coordinator)
 2.  Andrzej Bartosiewicz
 3.  Cary Karp
 4.  Eric Brown
 5.  Francisco Obispo
 6.  Giovanni Seppia
 7.  Wil Tan
 8.  Will Shorter

Others

 *   The joint ccNSO-GNSO Working Group on IDNs (JIG) will appoint an observer 
for each case study.







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