http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-3-09jun11-en.htm IDN Variant TLD Case Study Update 9 June 2011 On April 20, 2011, ICANN announced its approach to move forward with the IDN Variant TLDs Issues Project by publishing the Final Proposal for the Project<http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/idn-variant-tlds-delegation-20apr11...> [PDF, 195 KB] and the Call for Volunteers<http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/idn-variant-tlds-call-for-volunteer...> [PDF, 112 KB]. This project is dedicated to identifying the issues involved in the delegation of IDN Variant TLDs. Today, we are pleased to announce the formation of six case study teams, comprising a total of 66 experts from 29 countries and territories. In addition, six organizations are in the process of being selected to be local hosts for each of the case studies. A local host organization will provide meeting and other facilities to support the case studies work. A decision and announcement will follow shortly. Individual members are listed at the end of this announcement and they offer expertise in the following areas: DNS, IDNA, linguistics, security & scalability, policy, registry/registrar operations, and community representatives. On Saturday, 18 June 2011, all-day project team meetings are being planned in Singapore at which the case study teams will meet together in plenary sessions and in individual breakout working sessions. Interested members of the community can receive updates and participate in the discussions of this work by subscribing to vip@icann.org<mailto:vip@icann.org> mailing list (https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/vip) or by visiting https://community.icann.org/display/VIP/. Arabic Case Study 1. Sarmad Hussain (Coordinator) 2. Abdulaziz Al-Zoman 3. Behnam Esfahbod 4. Fahd A. Batayneh 5. Huda Sarfraz 6. Khaled Koubaa 7. Manal Ismail 8. Mohamed El-Bashir 9. Raed Al-Fayez 10. Siavash Shahshahani 11. Syed Iftikhar H. Shah Chinese Case Study 1. Xiaodong Lee (Coordinator) 2. Chris Dillon 3. Hong Xue 4. James Seng 5. Jian Zhang 6. Joe Zhang 7. Jonathan Shea 8. Joseph Yee 9. June Seo 10. Shianyong Tseng 11. Wei Wang 12. Yoshiro Yoneya Cyrillic Case Study 1. Alexey Sozonov (Coordinator) 2. Alexei Mykhaylov 3. Alexey Ptashniy 4. Daniel Kalchev 5. Iliya Bazlyankov 6. Oksana Prykhodko 7. Saso Dimitrijoski 8. Sergey Sharikov 9. Vladimir Shadrunov Devanagari Case Study 1. Dr. Govind (Coordinator) 2. Amardeep Singh Chawla 3. Bal Krishna Bal 4. Basanta shrestha 5. Bhavin Turakhia 6. James Galvin 7. Jitender Kumar 8. K. B. Narayanan 9. Kalyan Kale 10. Mahesh Kulkarni 11. Manish Dalal 12. Prabhakar Kshotriya 13. Pramod Pandey 14. Raiomond Doctor 15. Rajiv Kumar 16. Satyendra Kumar Pandey 17. Shashi Bharadwaj 18. Tulika Pandey Greek Case Study 1. Vaggelis Segredakis (Coordinator) 2. Asimina Giannopoulou 3. Catherine Tsapikidou 4. Evangelos Melagrakis 5. Fotia Panayiotou 6. George Papapavlou 7. Giannis Papaioannou 8. Panagiotis Papaspiliopoulos Latin Case Study 1. Jothan Frakes (Coordinator) 2. Andrzej Bartosiewicz 3. Cary Karp 4. Eric Brown 5. Francisco Obispo 6. Giovanni Seppia 7. Wil Tan 8. Will Shorter Others * The joint ccNSO-GNSO Working Group on IDNs (JIG) will appoint an observer for each case study. Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org