Dear all,

ICANN’s IDN Variant Issues project, which is identifying issues involved in the delegation and use of IDN Variant TLDs, has been working on writing reports on issues associated with Arabic, Devanagari, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek and Latin scripts.

The Chinese and Devanagari Study Reports are now posted and open for public comments:

Chinese: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-03oct11-en.htm
Devanagari:  http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-03oct11-en.htm

The comment period ends on 14 November 2011.

The reports to the remaining scripts are expected to be published shortly.

ICANN has also formed an expert team which will advice ICANN in completing an issues report which will summarise all issues identified in the various scripts. The team will start its work at the Senegal meeting. An open public session will be held where the case studies will be presented and an update on the issues report will be given.

If you are interested in receiving updates and participate in the discussions of this team, you are welcome to subscribe to its email list: vip@icann.org (https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/vip) or by visiting https://community.icann.org/display/VIP/.

For more information, see: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-4-03oct11-en.htm

Kind regards,

Gabi