Dear all, Following the letter from the Chair of ICANN Board to the SO/AC chairs on 29 January 2018, posted at https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/chalaby-to-so-ac-chairs... , ICANN org recently released an announcement at https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2018-02-08-en for nominations of technical experts from GNSO (2), ccNSO (2), SSAC (2) and ALAC (2) to work on recommendations for application of Root Zone LGR. ICANN is forming a technical group to study how to apply the Root Zone Label Generation Rules (RZ-LGR) for the Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) and IDN generic top-level domains (gTLDs). The study group will be composed of technical subject matter experts on IDNs and the RZ-LGR from the Supporting Organizations (SOs), the Advisory Committees(ACs) and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). The ICANN Board will consider recommendations developed by this study group to determine next steps. Expert's nominations should be emailed to IDNProgram@icann.org<mailto:IDNProgram@icann.org> by 28 February 2018 Read more at https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2018-02-08-en Best regards, Joke Braeken ccNSO Policy Advisor joke.braeken@icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org> Follow @ccNSO on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccNSO Follow the ccNSO on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccnso/ http://ccnso.icann.org