[council] Variant Issues Project -- Cyrillic Case Study Team Issues Report

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-06oct11-en.htm

Variant Issues Project -- Cyrillic Case Study Team Issues Report

Comment Period Deadlines (*)

Important Information Links

Public Comment 
Box<http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/idn-vip-cyrillic-06oct11-en.htm>

Open Date:

6 October 2011

To Submit Your Comments (Forum)<mailto:idn-vip-cyrillic@xxxxxxxxx>

Close Date:

14 November 2011

Time (UTC):

23:59

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Section I: Description, Explanation, and Purpose

As described in earlier announcements on this topic, the benefits and risks 
associated with the potential delegation of Variant TLDs have been widely 
discussed and solutions are being pursued.
ICANN is publishing today the issues report completed by the Cyrillic case 
study team, for public comment. In accordance with the Variant Issues 
Project<http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/idn-variant-tlds-delegation-20apr11-en.pdf>
 [PDF, 195 KB], ICANN has conducted six case studies of individual scripts to 
investigate any issues that need to be resolved to facilitate a good user 
experience for IDN variant TLDs.
Individual case studies for the Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, 
and Latin scripts have been undertaken. Each study, carried out by a volunteer 
community study team with help from ICANN staff, concentrates on specific 
issues that are relevant to the individual scripts.
It is expected that the results of the case studies will play a crucial role in 
the identification of solutions towards the delegation of IDN variant TLDs. 
With these individual case studies being completed, a team comprised of 
representatives from the case study teams and ICANN will develop a single, 
integrated issues report to be published in December 2011. After that, work on 
developing solutions can proceed as a second phase.
Public comment on these reports will inform the formulation of the combined 
issues report. The public comment forum is open through 14 November 2011.

Section II: Background

On 25 September 2010 the Board of Directors of the Internet Corporation for 
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) directed the CEO "to develop an issues 
report identifying what needs to be done with the evaluation, possible 
delegation, allocation and operation of gTLDs containing variant characters 
IDNs as part of the new gTLD process in order to facilitate the development of 
workable approaches to the deployment of gTLDs containing variant characters 
IDNs." (http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-25sep10-en.htm#2.5)
In response ICANN has conducted six case studies of individual scripts to 
investigate any issues associated with delegating and using IDN variant TLDs 
that need to be resolved to facilitate a good user experience.
The original Variant Issues Project 
proposal<http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/idn-variant-tlds-delegation-20apr11-en.pdf>
 [PDF, 195 KB] was published on 20 April 2011.

Section III: Document and Resource Links

Document posted for public comment: Cyrillic Case Study Team 
Report<http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/cyrillic-vip-issues-report-06oct11-en.pdf>
 [PDF, 1.02 MB]

Section IV: Additional Information

Next steps: ICANN will complete a consolidated issues report that will 
summarize and synthesize the issues identified by the case study teams. The 
group's work in preparation of this consolidated report is scheduled to start 
in October at the ICANN public meeting in Dakar, Senegal.

Staff Contact:

Patrick Jones

Email:

patrick.jones@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:patrick.jones@xxxxxxxxx?subject=More%20information%20on%20the%20Variant%20Issues%20Project%20--%20Cyrillic%20Case%20Study%20Team%20Issues%20Report%20public%20comment%20period>


Glen de Saint Géry

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