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From: ICANN News Alert
[mailto:communications@icann.org]
Sent: Thursday, 19 February 2009 08:12
To: ceo@auda.org.au
Subject: ICANN News Alert -- Public Comment: Fast Track Proposed
Solutions
News Alert
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-18feb09-en.htm
Public Comment: Fast Track Proposed Solutions
18
February 2009
A public comment period opens
today on a number of proposed implementation features in the “Fast Track”
process, as well as an updated version of the Fast Track’s Implementation Plan
.
The Fast Track is a mechanism
to introduce a limited number of non-contentious internationalized country-code
top level domain names (IDN ccTLDs) to the Internet.
In the initial draft of the
Fast Track Implementation Plan, a number of open issues were identified that
require further input from the community and need to be resolved to complete
the implementation.
There are separate papers of
proposed implementation details (listed below). The papers are based on
comments and input received from the community, notably from meetings held at
ICANN’s international public meeting in Cairo in November 2008.
Along with the papers are: an
updated Draft Implementation Plan; a document providing a consolidated overview
of the comments received and document containing staff considerations regarding
the comments received on the initial Draft Implementation Plan. This new
version of the plan is intended to elicit further community feedback both
during and after the ICANN meeting in Mexico City next month (1-6 March 2009).
The public comment period
that opened today covers both the Draft Implementation Plan and the papers.
Comments received will be used to revise the plan in preparation of a Final
Implementation Plan. The comment period ends on 6 April 2009.
Please note that the papers
listed below are proposed discussion drafts only. Potential IDN ccTLD
requestors should not rely on any of the proposed included details as it
remains subject to further consultation and revision.
Please also note that it is
expected there will be several updates to this announcement as papers are
released as they are finalized and translated.
The papers describe:
1. Documentation
of Responsibility between ICANN and prospective IDN ccTLD Managers [PDF,
156K]
2. Development
and use of IDN tables and character variants for second and top level strings
[PDF, 120K]
Related links:
Public comment period: http://forum.icann.org/lists/ft-implementation/
Revised Fast Track Draft
Implementation Plan: (coming)
Staff considerations on
received comments: (coming)
Working Group Final Report
(with public comments): http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/staff-considerations-idnc-wg-final-report-23oct08-en.pdf
[PDF, 269K]
Fast Track webpage: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/
My Name My Language My
Internet
After years of development,
discussion, review and thought, internationalized domains are being expanded.
While IDNs have been available under certain TLDs since 2001 (for test
purposes) and since 2003 (under technical protocol) they will now become available
as TLDs as well. They will allow for more innovation, choice and change to a
global Internet presently served by just 21 generic top-level domain names.
For the IDN ccTLDs a Draft
Implementation Plan has been developed with opportunities for public comment.
The draft plan describes processes for countries and territories to request
their country or territory name in their local language or script as an IDN
ccTLD. There has been and will continue to be detailed technical scrutiny to
ensure the Internet's stability and security. For more details see http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/
For IDN gTLDs, while
technically no different than the IDN ccTLDs, these will become available through
the process for introduction of new gTLDs.
A draft guidebook for new
gTLDs has also been made available for public comment, see http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-program.htm
for more details. Additional comment periods will open shortly and ICANN staff
is looking forward to further discussions during the upcoming ICANN meeting in
Mexico City, Mexico.
ICANN is a not for profit
corporation dedicated to coordinating the Internet's addressing system.
Promoting competition and choice is one of the principles upon which ICANN was
founded. In a world with 1.5 billion Internet users (and growing), diversity,
choice and innovation are key.
The Internet has supported
huge increases in choice, innovation and the competition of ideas and expanding
the concept of TLDs is an opportunity for more.
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