APRALO-APAC Hub Webinar – What are IDNs and what does it mean to you?
In collaboration with the APRALO Capacity Building Webinar Series

Do you know that characters used in top-level domains (TLDs) extend beyond ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) including other scripts such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Japanese and others? To determine valid TLD labels in these scripts and their variants, however, community input is very important. Join us to find out more about IDNs at our webinar session and learn how you can play a part! The proposed agenda is as follows:

-      Introduction to Mr. Sarmad Hussain, IDN Program Senior Manager at ICANN
-      What are Internationalized Domain Names?
-      What does it mean to you?
-      IDN Work at ICANN
-      Sharing by APRALO representative: IDN from the Label Generation Ruleset (LGR) panel perspective (TBC)
-      Why and how you can be involved
-      Q&A

Questions:  Please submit questions in advance to help us better tailor the webinar to the needs of the APAC region. Send your questions and RSVP to apachub@icann.org by 3 April. We look forward to your active participation. 

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Date: 9 April 2015
Time: 11:00 – 12:00 Singapore Time / 03:00 – 04:00 UTC (Time zone conversions can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/APACWebinar-9April2015 )
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