Dear All,

After discussions in TLDCON in Baku recently, we are now planning a meeting at ICANN 51 in LA for the Cyrillic script community to finalize the plans for forming Cyrillic Generation Panel. 

We are also holding IDN Program sessions.  We encourage you to attend these sessions, and mark your calendars as per the details below.

We look forward to your participation.  Please feel free to invite others interested in contributing to Cyrillic Generation Panel to attend.

Meeting at ICANN51

Tuesday: Cyrillic Community Meeting to Formulate a Cyrillic Generation Panel      2:00-3:30pm (room/location will be finalized and announced on Friday through email)

Formal IDN Program Sessions at ICANN51

Wednesday 15 October

8:30am-9:45am IDN Program Update

10:00am-11:15am          IDN Root Zone LGR (Workshop)

IDN Program Update (time: 1hr 15 mins)

1. IDN Program – Overview and Progress - 15 mins – Sarmad Hussain

2. Maximal Starting Repertoire (MSR) – 5 mins – Marc Blanchet

3. Transitioning from MSR to LGR – 15 mins – Asmus Freytag  

4. LGR Builder– A Tool for Generation Panels and the Community - 10 mins – Kim Davies

5. Community Updates on Generation Panels – 10 mins

a. Need for Latin GP – Cary Karp

b. Update on Arabic GP – Meikal Mumin

6. Q/A – 20 mins

IDN Root Zone LGR (Workshop) – Coordination across languages and scripts (time: 1 hr 15 mins)

1. Introduction – Sarmad Hussain – 1 min

2. Need, Limitations and Mechanisms for the Root Zone LGR – Marc Blanchet– 10 mins

3. Coordination between Chinese, Japanese and Korean Scripts – Wang Wei – 10 mins

4. Coordination between Cyrillic, Greek and Latin Scripts – Cary Karp – 10 mins

5. Coordination between Neo-Brahmi Scripts – Neha Gupta – 10 mins

6. Challenges in Addressing Multiple Languages using Arabic Script– Meikel Mumin – 10 mins

7. Q/A - 24 mins

Regards,

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Sarmad Hussain

IDN Program Sr. Manager