Hi Everyone Each month, the RALO Chair is to submit a report on the activities in their region. It's a bit late, but many of you will also have been tied up with Baku. So please, for the October newsletter, I want to include - new APRALO members for October - confirmation of new APRALO officers at Toronto - highlights for APRALO during Toronto. A lot of you were there, but I don't see reports. I want to list who among us was there, and highlights of the issues that concern us. Edmon and Rinalia particularly, a couple of sentences on IDNs in Toronto - thanks - other APRALO activities - Sala - how did your capacity building exercise go? we should cover that in the news letter What I want to do next is what Garth has done in NARALO: List the various issues that are ALAC's as well as listing other issues specific to this region - and assign people to issues. (e.g., for the RAA, Cintra has already put her hand up along with mine,, and Edmon's and Rinalia's are against IDNs) But first - any more reports from Toronto - and any other reports for the region Thanks Holly
Dear Holly, As requested, an update on IDNs from Toronto onwards (this update applies till end of December 2012): *IDN Variant TLD Program * The ICANN IDN Variant TLD Program is tasked with exploring the issues associated with the potential inclusion of IDN variant TLDs in the DNS root zone. In Toronto, work in progress on 2 projects were presented by the ICANN IDN Variant TLD Program Team: (1) Label Generation Ruleset Process for the Root - The development of a * proc**edure* to develop and maintain the Label Generation Rules for the Root Zone. (2) User Experience with active Variants - The study of possible user experience implications of activating two or more IDN variant TLDs. *At-Large Responses to the Projects:* (1) The At-Large IDN Working Group meeting in Toronto focused on issues surrounding a preliminary report on the ***Label Generation Rule**set Process for the Root*. Based on the discussion, a written response has been drafted (see https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=36212771), which will be voted upon by the ALAC and targeted for submission on 27 November 2012. 3 areas of concern were highlighted in the response: (a) Lack of policy expertise specified for the proposed panels that will help balance the need for strict security and stability conservativeness versus the support needed for acceptable IDN implementation from the users' point of view; (b) Lack of expressed accountability and review of process; and (c) Insufficient explanation of how the specific process fits into the wider processes regarding new gTLD and IDN ccTLD. (2) A draft response to the "Interim Report Examining the User Experience Implications of Active Variant TLDs" is currently being developed for discussion with the At-Large IDN Working Group prior to ALAC consultation and vote. When ready the draft will be posted here: https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=37193862. *IDN Country Code Policy Development* On 10 November 2012, the ALAC response to the draft IDN ccTLD String Selection Criteria, Requirements and Processes for countries, territories and special areas of geographic interests listed in ISO 3166-1 was submitted to the ccNSO. The ALAC statement highlighted the following: a) applicability of the Root Zone Label Generation Rules to IDN ccTLDs; b) confusing similarity assessment based on the perspective of the local IDN user; c) dispute resolution facilitation via provision of informational materials and case studies on best practices for the local actors to consider in their dispute resolution process or encouragement on the use of any neutral dispute resolution facility for IDN ccTLD string contention; and d) consideration of the needs of cross-border language communities in determining language jurisdiction. END Best regards, Rinalia On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Holly Raiche <h.raiche@internode.on.net>wrote:
Hi Everyone
Each month, the RALO Chair is to submit a report on the activities in their region.
It's a bit late, but many of you will also have been tied up with Baku.
So please, for the October newsletter, I want to include - new APRALO members for October - confirmation of new APRALO officers at Toronto - highlights for APRALO during Toronto. A lot of you were there, but I don't see reports. I want to list who among us was there, and highlights of the issues that concern us. Edmon and Rinalia particularly, a couple of sentences on IDNs in Toronto - thanks - other APRALO activities - Sala - how did your capacity building exercise go? we should cover that in the news letter
What I want to do next is what Garth has done in NARALO: List the various issues that are ALAC's as well as listing other issues specific to this region - and assign people to issues.
(e.g., for the RAA, Cintra has already put her hand up along with mine,, and Edmon's and Rinalia's are against IDNs)
But first - any more reports from Toronto - and any other reports for the region
Thanks
Holly
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Holly Raiche
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Rinalia Abdul Rahim