Namaste, One quick question- do we allow ZWJ & ZWNJ in the URL? Regards, Pavanaja From: neobrahmigp-bounces@icann.org [mailto:neobrahmigp-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Akshat Joshi Sent: 08 March 2017 02:50 PM To: Doc; Maheshdkulkarni@gmail Com; NeobrahmiGP@icann.org Subject: Re: [Neobrahmigp] INVITATION TO ATTEND ICANN NEO BRAHMI GENERATION PANEL INDUSTRY ONBOARDING MEETING Dear All, Further to today's fruitful meeting, I am delighted to inform you all that we are almost ready with the first-cut of the Devanagari LGR document which has been cursorily checked by the Integration Panel members. Once we are through with the Devanagari LGR, we can treat that as a guiding document and start working on other scripts on similar lines. Also, it is not assumed that Devanagari case will be able to address all the nuances that are there among all other brahmi based scripts. We will definitely need to take up each script on individual basis. However, with Devanagari LGR document almost ready, we have clear picture of the template to be followed. I will share the same with you all by next week. Regards, Akshat Joshi C-DAC GIST On 03-03-2017 10:16, Udaya Narayana Singh wrote: Dear Members, I am pleased to share with you that since the ICANN57 meeting held in Hyderabad in November 2016, there has been increased interest in Internationalized Domain Names and proliferation of Indic content in India. The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) hosted a session on Proliferation of Indic Computing at ICANN57 which was well-attended by members of government, industry, academia and civil society. Over the past few months, we have seen growing interest by those in Indic computing, to participate in the Neo Brahmi Generation Panel (NBGP). Apart from that, the Government of India is very keen for the early development of Indic computing resources, to facilitate greater penetration of Indic computing. Therefore, with that in mind, ICANN is organizing a half-day session, particularly for members of IAMAI on 8th March 2017, in New Delhi. The full agenda for this meeting follows below. NBGP members are invited to a meeting with IAMAI to discuss how industry can actively and effectively contribute to NBGP in taking the Generation Panel’s work forward to develop the Neo-Brahmi Label Generation Rules to support local language IDNs at the top-level. You may like to join this meeting in person, if deputed by your institution or project/programme, or alternatively, by remote telephonic participation. I request those who wish to join - either in person or by phone - to please send a line of confirmation by 6th March to Mr Samiran Gupta, Head, ICANN-India at : +91 99902 18198, E-mail: samiran.gupta@icann.org Skype: samiran.gupta.icann. For those joining by phone, dial-in details will be provided subsequently. Please note the agenda: _____ ICANN NEO BRAHMI GENERATION PANEL INDUSTRY ONBOARDING MEETING LUTYENS BALLROOM, EROS HOTEL, NEW DELHI, INDIA AGENDA 8th March, 2017 10:00 – 13:30 Hrs TIME SUBJECT LEAD 10:00 – 10:30 Refreshments 10:30 – 10:40 Welcome and Introductions; Introductions of remote participants Samiran Gupta 10:40 – 10:50 Welcome address by Chair, NBGP Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh 10:50 – 11:00 Introduction to IAMAI IAMAI 11:00 – 11:25 Introduction to ICANN’s IDN TLD program · Objective of IDN TLD Program · The role of a GPs · Role of community members · Current state of progress of different GPs · Scope of the NBGP Sarmad Hussain 11:25 – 11:45 Update on NBGP progress and next steps Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh Akshat Joshi, C-DAC 11:45 – 12:00 Tea/coffee break 12:00 – 13:30 · Participants’ discussion on role of industry and business community in the NBGP · Conclusion and call to action All participants 13:30 Lunch at Blooms Restaurant With best wishes, Professor Udaya Narayana Singh Chair, Neo-Brahmi Panel (NBGP), ICANN Cell: +91-98301-32234 & 94340-50218 Home-page <http://www.udayanarayana.com/> www.udayanarayana.com Position Name Organization Country Language Expertise Chair Udaya Narayana Singh Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal India Bengali, Maithili,Hindi, English Member Anupam Agrawal Tata Consultancy Service India Hindi, Bengali Member Akshat S. Joshi C-DAC India Hindi, Marathi Member Abhijit Dutta Wikimedia India Bengali, Hindi Member Mahesh D. Kulkarni C-DAC India Marathi, Hindi Member Neha Gupta C-DAC India Hindi Member Nishit Jain C-DAC India Hindi Member Prabhakar Pandey C-DAC India Hindi Member Raiomond Doctor NLP Consultant India English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati Member N. DeivaSundaram NDS Lingsoft Solutions Pvt Ltd India Tamil Member Shantaram S. Warde Walawalikar Independent Researcher India Konkani Member Bal Krishna Bal Kathmandu University Nepal Nepali Member Ganesh Murmu Ranchi University India Santali Member Balaram Prasain Tribhuvan University Nepal Nepali Member Rajib Chakraborty Society for Natural Language Technology Research India Bangla (Bengali) Member Gurpreet Singh Lehal Punjabi University Patiala India Panjabi Member Saroja Bhate University of Pune India Sanskrit Member Shambhu Kumar Singh National Translation Misson, Mysore India Maithili Member SwarnaPrabha Chainary Guwahati University India Bodo Member Ghanashyam Nepal Benares Hindu University& University of North Bengal India Nepali Member Kalyan Vasudeo Kale Formerly affiliated with University of Pune India Marathi Member Shashi Pathania P.G.D. of Dogri, University of Jammu India Dogri Member Santhosh Thottingal Wikimedia foundation India Malayalam, Sourashtra, Tamil Member Uma Maheshwar G CALTS, Univ. of Hyderabad India Telugu Member Girish Chandra Mishra Language Technology Centre, Ravenshaw University India Odia Member K. 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Dear Akshat Joshi, Thanks for the quick reply. ZWJ & ZWNJ have different specific purposes in different scripts/languages. Their use in Hindi is different from the use in Kannada. Hope these are considered. Is there any document on these? Regards, Pavanaja From: Akshat Joshi [mailto:akshatj@cdac.in] Sent: 08 March 2017 04:38 PM To: Dr. U.B. Pavanaja; 'Doc'; 'Maheshdkulkarni@gmail Com'; NeobrahmiGP@icann.org Subject: Re: [Neobrahmigp] INVITATION TO ATTEND ICANN NEO BRAHMI GENERATION PANEL INDUSTRY ONBOARDING MEETING Hello Dr. Pavanaja, As per my knowledge, the ZWNJ and ZWJ are allowed to be part of the domain names under specific contexts only and not in free-form way. However, specifically talking about this Root Zone LGR Project, they have not been permitted to be part of the TLD strings. Regards, Akshat On 08-03-2017 15:45, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja wrote: Namaste, One quick question- do we allow ZWJ & ZWNJ in the URL? Regards, Pavanaja From: neobrahmigp-bounces@icann.org [mailto:neobrahmigp-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Akshat Joshi Sent: 08 March 2017 02:50 PM To: Doc; Maheshdkulkarni@gmail Com; NeobrahmiGP@icann.org Subject: Re: [Neobrahmigp] INVITATION TO ATTEND ICANN NEO BRAHMI GENERATION PANEL INDUSTRY ONBOARDING MEETING Dear All, Further to today's fruitful meeting, I am delighted to inform you all that we are almost ready with the first-cut of the Devanagari LGR document which has been cursorily checked by the Integration Panel members. Once we are through with the Devanagari LGR, we can treat that as a guiding document and start working on other scripts on similar lines. Also, it is not assumed that Devanagari case will be able to address all the nuances that are there among all other brahmi based scripts. We will definitely need to take up each script on individual basis. However, with Devanagari LGR document almost ready, we have clear picture of the template to be followed. I will share the same with you all by next week. Regards, Akshat Joshi C-DAC GIST On 03-03-2017 10:16, Udaya Narayana Singh wrote: Dear Members, I am pleased to share with you that since the ICANN57 meeting held in Hyderabad in November 2016, there has been increased interest in Internationalized Domain Names and proliferation of Indic content in India. The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) hosted a session on Proliferation of Indic Computing at ICANN57 which was well-attended by members of government, industry, academia and civil society. Over the past few months, we have seen growing interest by those in Indic computing, to participate in the Neo Brahmi Generation Panel (NBGP). Apart from that, the Government of India is very keen for the early development of Indic computing resources, to facilitate greater penetration of Indic computing. Therefore, with that in mind, ICANN is organizing a half-day session, particularly for members of IAMAI on 8th March 2017, in New Delhi. The full agenda for this meeting follows below. NBGP members are invited to a meeting with IAMAI to discuss how industry can actively and effectively contribute to NBGP in taking the Generation Panel’s work forward to develop the Neo-Brahmi Label Generation Rules to support local language IDNs at the top-level. You may like to join this meeting in person, if deputed by your institution or project/programme, or alternatively, by remote telephonic participation. I request those who wish to join - either in person or by phone - to please send a line of confirmation by 6th March to Mr Samiran Gupta, Head, ICANN-India at : +91 99902 18198, E-mail: samiran.gupta@icann.org Skype: samiran.gupta.icann. For those joining by phone, dial-in details will be provided subsequently. Please note the agenda: _____ ICANN NEO BRAHMI GENERATION PANEL INDUSTRY ONBOARDING MEETING LUTYENS BALLROOM, EROS HOTEL, NEW DELHI, INDIA AGENDA 8th March, 2017 10:00 – 13:30 Hrs TIME SUBJECT LEAD 10:00 – 10:30 Refreshments 10:30 – 10:40 Welcome and Introductions; Introductions of remote participants Samiran Gupta 10:40 – 10:50 Welcome address by Chair, NBGP Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh 10:50 – 11:00 Introduction to IAMAI IAMAI 11:00 – 11:25 Introduction to ICANN’s IDN TLD program · Objective of IDN TLD Program · The role of a GPs · Role of community members · Current state of progress of different GPs · Scope of the NBGP Sarmad Hussain 11:25 – 11:45 Update on NBGP progress and next steps Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh Akshat Joshi, C-DAC 11:45 – 12:00 Tea/coffee break 12:00 – 13:30 · Participants’ discussion on role of industry and business community in the NBGP · Conclusion and call to action All participants 13:30 Lunch at Blooms Restaurant With best wishes, Professor Udaya Narayana Singh Chair, Neo-Brahmi Panel (NBGP), ICANN Cell: +91-98301-32234 & 94340-50218 Home-page <http://www.udayanarayana.com/> www.udayanarayana.com Position Name Organization Country Language Expertise Chair Udaya Narayana Singh Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal India Bengali, Maithili,Hindi, English Member Anupam Agrawal Tata Consultancy Service India Hindi, Bengali Member Akshat S. Joshi C-DAC India Hindi, Marathi Member Abhijit Dutta Wikimedia India Bengali, Hindi Member Mahesh D. Kulkarni C-DAC India Marathi, Hindi Member Neha Gupta C-DAC India Hindi Member Nishit Jain C-DAC India Hindi Member Prabhakar Pandey C-DAC India Hindi Member Raiomond Doctor NLP Consultant India English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati Member N. DeivaSundaram NDS Lingsoft Solutions Pvt Ltd India Tamil Member Shantaram S. Warde Walawalikar Independent Researcher India Konkani Member Bal Krishna Bal Kathmandu University Nepal Nepali Member Ganesh Murmu Ranchi University India Santali Member Balaram Prasain Tribhuvan University Nepal Nepali Member Rajib Chakraborty Society for Natural Language Technology Research India Bangla (Bengali) Member Gurpreet Singh Lehal Punjabi University Patiala India Panjabi Member Saroja Bhate University of Pune India Sanskrit Member Shambhu Kumar Singh National Translation Misson, Mysore India Maithili Member SwarnaPrabha Chainary Guwahati University India Bodo Member Ghanashyam Nepal Benares Hindu University& University of North Bengal India Nepali Member Kalyan Vasudeo Kale Formerly affiliated with University of Pune India Marathi Member Shashi Pathania P.G.D. of Dogri, University of Jammu India Dogri Member Santhosh Thottingal Wikimedia foundation India Malayalam, Sourashtra, Tamil Member Uma Maheshwar G CALTS, Univ. of Hyderabad India Telugu Member Girish Chandra Mishra Language Technology Centre, Ravenshaw University India Odia Member K. C. Tikayat ray Odia Bhasa Pratisthan India Odia Member DEBAJIT SHARMA Anundoram Borooah Institute of Language Art and Culture India Assamese Member BASANTA KUMAR PANDA Regional Institute of Education (NCERT) India Odia Member Arvind Bhandari Gujarat University India Gujarati Member Harish Chowdhary NIXI India Hindi Member Ajay Data DATAINFOSYS India Hindi, others Member Chitrita Chatterjee Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) India Multiple languages represented by members of IAMAI Member U.B. Pavanaja <http://vishvakannada.com/> http://vishvakannada.com/ India Kannada Contact and Additional Information -- Regards, Akshat Joshi C-DAC GIST ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ C-DAC is on Social-Media too. 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Dear Professor Singh, Thanks for sharing the minutes. As promised during the meeting, I am attaching herewith a soft copy of the latest I-cube 2016 [Internet in India-2016] I do hope this will be of interest. Regarding suggesting names for the Co-Chair, I will revert by tomorrow with names/nomination. warm regards, Chitrita -- Chitrita Chatterjee Associate Vice President Internet & Mobile Association of India #28, First Floor Okhla Industrial estate; Phase III New Delhi-1100020 [India] mob: +91 98104 77552; Landline: 011-41766666 website: www.iamai.in blog: http://awanderingaesthete.blogspot.com From: Udaya Narayana Singh via Neobrahmigp <neobrahmigp@icann.org> Reply-To: Udaya Narayana Singh <unsciil@yahoo.com> Date: Thursday, 9 March 2017 5:48 pm To: Udaya Narayana Singh <unsciil@yahoo.com>, Mahesh Kulkarni <mdk@cdac.in>, Akshat Joshi <akshatj@cdac.in>, Neha Gupta <nehag@cdac.in>, Doc <raymond.doctor@gmail.com>, "Maheshdkulkarni@gmail Com" <maheshdkulkarni@gmail.com>, "NeobrahmiGP@icann.org" <NeobrahmiGP@icann.org> Subject: Re: [Neobrahmigp] INVITATION TO ATTEND ICANN NEO BRAHMI GENERATION PANEL INDUSTRY ONBOARDING MEETING MINUTES OF THE NBGP INDUSTRY ONBOARD MEETING & ACTION PLAN The half-a-day NBGP Meeting to discuss how industry, and especially members of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) could actively and effectively contribute to the Neo-Brahmi Generation Panel¹s work forward to development of Label Generation Rules to support local language IDNs at the top-level was held in Eros Hotel on 8th March 2017 10.30 AM onwards where members and invitees attended the meeting in person as well as online or from by remote telephonic participation. Since the ICANN57 held in Hyderabad in November 2016, there has been increased interest in Internationalized Domain Names and proliferation of Indic content in India, and the NBGP was pleased to find four members of the industry participating in person - beginning with Ms Chitrita Chatterji, the President of IAMAI, Dr Ajay Data, Ms Sukriti Gupta of the Jagaran Digital group and Vijayananda Prabhu of the Reverie, Bangalore. Hosting the meeting were Samiran Gupta assisted by Gangesh Verma) and Sarmad Hussain, and there were Akshat Joshi from C-DAC as well as Dr U.V. Pavanaja who joined online. The meeting was chaired by Professor Udaya Narayana Singh. The key outcomes were as follows: 1. Akshat Joshi (C-DAC) informed all that NBGP is almost ready with the first-cut of the Devanagari LGR document which has been initially checked by the Integration Panel members. He would now do the following: a. Send a mail to the panel advising current status of work on Devanagari and proposed next steps. b. share updated report (which is now ³80% done²) with the panel members within seven days for their inputs and comments to take it to 95% completion. c. Soon after the initial reactions and comments, the Report will be sent again to the Integration Panel as well as put in the public domains for comments and criticisms. 2. It was also agreed that NBGP will have a Co-Chair, preferably from the relevant Industry, in this case, from IAMAI to accelerate the task of the panel. 3. It was also agreed to induct more members from the IAMAI - for which the proposals would be received and acted upon. The would request an addition of three new members to the panel, perhaps the following: i. Sukriti Gupta from Jagran Digital ii. Someone from Times Internet iii. Perrhaps Vijayananda from Reverie 4. IAMAI will internally discuss and return to the Panel Chair with their suggestion on the Co-chair within the next seven days. Sarmad to help on-board the co-chair if required. 5. When the four as above is done within the next week, the NBGP will call a meeting over the next 15 days or so to discuss and plan next steps. ICANN: Sarmad/IDN team to support meeting management for calls as required. 6. Once we are through with the Devanagari LGR, we can treat that as a guiding document and start working on other scripts on similar lines. However, it is not assumed that Devanagari case will be able to address all the nuances that are there among all other Brahmi-based scripts. We will definitely need to take up each script separately. But the Devanagari LGR document should present a clear picture of the template to be followed. Also, in this way, at least 11 languages using Devanagari would be onboard using/testing/commenting on a part of what the NBGP has done. 7. We should also aim for regular online meetings of the panel to make progress and involve the panel members. The meeting ended with thanks to all. Professor Udaya Narayana Singh Chair, NBGP Cell: +91-98301-32234 & 94340-50218 Formerly, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan & Former Director, Central Inst of Indian Languages (CIIL) Home-page www.udayanarayana.com <http://www.udayanarayana.com/> On Friday, 3 March 2017 10:16 AM, Udaya Narayana Singh <unsciil@yahoo.com> wrote: Dear Members, I am pleased to share with you that since the ICANN57 meeting held in Hyderabad in November 2016, there has been increased interest in Internationalized Domain Names and proliferation of Indic content in India. The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) hosted a session on Proliferation of Indic Computing at ICANN57 which was well-attended by members of government, industry, academia and civil society. Over the past few months, we have seen growing interest by those in Indic computing, to participate in the Neo Brahmi Generation Panel (NBGP). Apart from that, the Government of India is very keen for the early development of Indic computing resources, to facilitate greater penetration of Indic computing. Therefore, with that in mind, ICANN is organizing a half-day session, particularly for members of IAMAI on 8th March 2017, in New Delhi. The full agenda for this meeting follows below. NBGP members are invited to a meeting with IAMAI to discuss how industry can actively and effectively contribute to NBGP in taking the Generation Panel¹s work forward to develop the Neo-Brahmi Label Generation Rules to support local language IDNs at the top-level. You may like to join this meeting in person, if deputed by your institution or project/programme, or alternatively, by remote telephonic participation. I request those who wish to join - either in person or by phone - to please send a line of confirmation by 6th March to Mr Samiran Gupta, Head, ICANN-India at : +91 99902 18198, E-mail: samiran.gupta@icann. org <mailto:samiran.gupta@icann.org> Skype: samiran.gupta.icann. For those joining by phone, dial-in details will be provided subsequently. Please note the agenda: _____ ICANN NEO BRAHMI GENERATION PANEL INDUSTRY ONBOARDING MEETING LUTYENS BALLROOM, EROS HOTEL, NEW DELHI, INDIA AGENDA 8th March, 2017 10:00 ­ 13:30 Hrs TIME SUBJECT LEAD 10:00 ­ 10:30 Refreshments 10:30 ­ 10:40 Welcome and Introductions; Introductions of remote participants Samiran Gupta 10:40 ­ 10:50 Welcome address by Chair, NBGP Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh 10:50 ­ 11:00 Introduction to IAMAI IAMAI 11:00 ­ 11:25 Introduction to ICANN¹s IDN TLD program · Objective of IDN TLD Program · The role of a GPs · Role of community members · Current state of progress of different GPs · Scope of the NBGP Sarmad Hussain 11:25 ­ 11:45 Update on NBGP progress and next steps Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh Akshat Joshi, C-DAC 11:45 ­ 12:00 Tea/coffee break 12:00 ­ 13:30 · Participants¹ discussion on role of industry and business community in the NBGP · Conclusion and call to action All participants 13:30 Lunch at Blooms Restaurant With best wishes, Professor Udaya Narayana Singh Chair, Neo-Brahmi Panel (NBGP), ICANN Cell: +91-98301-32234 & 94340-50218 Home-page www.udayanarayana.com <http://www.udayanarayana.com/> Position Name Organization Country Language Expertise Chair Udaya Narayana SinghVisva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West BengalIndiaBengali, Maithili,Hindi, English Member Anupam AgrawalTata Consultancy ServiceIndiaHindi, Bengali MemberAkshat S. JoshiC-DACIndiaHindi, Marathi MemberAbhijit DuttaWikimediaIndiaBengali, Hindi MemberMahesh D. KulkarniC-DACIndiaMarathi, Hindi MemberNeha GuptaC-DACIndiaHindi MemberNishit JainC-DACIndiaHindi MemberPrabhakar PandeyC-DACIndiaHindi MemberRaiomond DoctorNLP ConsultantIndiaEnglish, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati MemberN. DeivaSundaramNDS Lingsoft Solutions Pvt LtdIndiaTamil MemberShantaram S. Warde WalawalikarIndependent ResearcherIndiaKonkani MemberBal Krishna BalKathmandu UniversityNepalNepali MemberGanesh MurmuRanchi UniversityIndiaSantali MemberBalaram PrasainTribhuvan UniversityNepalNepali MemberRajib ChakrabortySociety for Natural Language Technology ResearchIndiaBangla (Bengali) MemberGurpreet Singh LehalPunjabi University PatialaIndiaPanjabi MemberSaroja BhateUniversity of PuneIndiaSanskrit MemberShambhu Kumar SinghNational Translation Misson, MysoreIndiaMaithili MemberSwarnaPrabha ChainaryGuwahati UniversityIndiaBodo MemberGhanashyam NepalBenares Hindu University& University of North BengalIndiaNepali MemberKalyan Vasudeo KaleFormerly affiliated with University of PuneIndiaMarathi MemberShashi PathaniaP.G.D. of Dogri, University of JammuIndiaDogri MemberSanthosh Thottingal Wikimedia foundationIndiaMalayalam, Sourashtra, Tamil MemberUma Maheshwar G CALTS, Univ. of HyderabadIndiaTelugu MemberGirish Chandra Mishra Language Technology Centre, Ravenshaw University IndiaOdia MemberK. C. Tikayat ray Odia Bhasa PratisthanIndiaOdia MemberDEBAJIT SHARMAAnundoram Borooah Institute of Language Art and CultureIndiaAssamese MemberBASANTA KUMAR PANDARegional Institute of Education (NCERT)IndiaOdia MemberArvind BhandariGujarat UniversityIndiaGujarati MemberHarish ChowdharyNIXIIndiaHindi MemberAjay DataDATAINFOSYSIndiaHindi, others MemberChitrita Chatterjee Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI)IndiaMultiple languages represented by members of IAMAI MemberU.B. Pavanajahttp://vishvakannada.com/IndiaKannada Contact and Additional Information _______________________________________________ Neobrahmigp mailing list Neobrahmigp@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/neobrahmigp

Dear All, On behalf of IAMAI, I am happy to propose the name of Dr Ajay Data as one of the co-chairs for this committee. I await response regarding the 2nd nomination. Will revert on that shortly. Dr Data brings with him a huge repository of domain knowledge and expertise in the field, apart from the passion to drive the NBGP agenda to achieve desired results, I hope his nomination finds acceptance within the panel. Sincere regards, Chitrita -- Chitrita Chatterjee Associate Vice President Internet & Mobile Association of India #28, First Floor Okhla Industrial estate; Phase III New Delhi-1100020 [India] mob: +91 98104 77552; Landline: 011-41766666 website: www.iamai.in blog: http://awanderingaesthete.blogspot.com From: Udaya Narayana Singh <unsciil@yahoo.com> Reply-To: Udaya Narayana Singh <unsciil@yahoo.com> Date: Friday, 24 March 2017 4:12 pm To: Administrator <chitrita@iamai.in>, Mahesh Kulkarni <mdk@cdac.in>, Akshat Joshi <akshatj@cdac.in>, Neha Gupta <nehag@cdac.in>, Doc <raymond.doctor@gmail.com>, "Maheshdkulkarni@gmail Com" <maheshdkulkarni@gmail.com>, "NeobrahmiGP@icann.org" <NeobrahmiGP@icann.org> Subject: Re: [Neobrahmigp] INVITATION TO ATTEND ICANN NEO BRAHMI GENERATION PANEL INDUSTRY ONBOARDING MEETING Dear Chitrita, The report will be very useful in my work - also for my own understanding of the issues. We will wait for your suggestion on the Co-Chair issue. Regards, Professor Udaya Narayana Singh Chair-Professor & Head, ACLS Amity Centre for Linguistic Studies (ACLS) Amity University Haryana, Gurgaon Pachgaon, Manesar PIN 122431 Cell: +91-98301-32234 & 94340-50218 Formerly, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan & Former Director, Central Inst of Indian Languages (CIIL) Home-page www.udayanarayana.com <http://www.udayanarayana.com/> On Friday, 24 March 2017 2:45 PM, Chitrita <chitrita@iamai.in> wrote: Dear Professor Singh, Thanks for sharing the minutes. As promised during the meeting, I am attaching herewith a soft copy of the latest I-cube 2016 [Internet in India-2016] I do hope this will be of interest. Regarding suggesting names for the Co-Chair, I will revert by tomorrow with names/nomination. warm regards, Chitrita -- Chitrita Chatterjee Associate Vice President Internet & Mobile Association of India #28, First Floor Okhla Industrial estate; Phase III New Delhi-1100020 [India] mob: +91 98104 77552; Landline: 011-41766666 website: www.iamai.in blog: http://awanderingaesthete.blogspot.com <http://awanderingaesthete.blogspot.com/> From: Udaya Narayana Singh via Neobrahmigp <neobrahmigp@icann.org> Reply-To: Udaya Narayana Singh <unsciil@yahoo.com> Date: Thursday, 9 March 2017 5:48 pm To: Udaya Narayana Singh <unsciil@yahoo.com>, Mahesh Kulkarni <mdk@cdac.in>, Akshat Joshi <akshatj@cdac.in>, Neha Gupta <nehag@cdac.in>, Doc <raymond.doctor@gmail.com>, "Maheshdkulkarni@gmail Com" <maheshdkulkarni@gmail.com>, "NeobrahmiGP@icann.org" <NeobrahmiGP@icann.org> Subject: Re: [Neobrahmigp] INVITATION TO ATTEND ICANN NEO BRAHMI GENERATION PANEL INDUSTRY ONBOARDING MEETING MINUTES OF THE NBGP INDUSTRY ONBOARD MEETING & ACTION PLAN The half-a-day NBGP Meeting to discuss how industry, and especially members of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) could actively and effectively contribute to the Neo-Brahmi Generation Panel¹s work forward to development of Label Generation Rules to support local language IDNs at the top-level was held in Eros Hotel on 8th March 2017 10.30 AM onwards where members and invitees attended the meeting in person as well as online or from by remote telephonic participation. Since the ICANN57 held in Hyderabad in November 2016, there has been increased interest in Internationalized Domain Names and proliferation of Indic content in India, and the NBGP was pleased to find four members of the industry participating in person - beginning with Ms Chitrita Chatterji, the President of IAMAI, Dr Ajay Data, Ms Sukriti Gupta of the Jagaran Digital group and Vijayananda Prabhu of the Reverie, Bangalore. Hosting the meeting were Samiran Gupta assisted by Gangesh Verma) and Sarmad Hussain, and there were Akshat Joshi from C-DAC as well as Dr U.V. Pavanaja who joined online. The meeting was chaired by Professor Udaya Narayana Singh. The key outcomes were as follows: 1. Akshat Joshi (C-DAC) informed all that NBGP is almost ready with the first-cut of the Devanagari LGR document which has been initially checked by the Integration Panel members. He would now do the following: a. Send a mail to the panel advising current status of work on Devanagari and proposed next steps. b. share updated report (which is now ³80% done²) with the panel members within seven days for their inputs and comments to take it to 95% completion. c. Soon after the initial reactions and comments, the Report will be sent again to the Integration Panel as well as put in the public domains for comments and criticisms. 2. It was also agreed that NBGP will have a Co-Chair, preferably from the relevant Industry, in this case, from IAMAI to accelerate the task of the panel. 3. It was also agreed to induct more members from the IAMAI - for which the proposals would be received and acted upon. The would request an addition of three new members to the panel, perhaps the following: i. Sukriti Gupta from Jagran Digital ii. Someone from Times Internet iii. Perrhaps Vijayananda from Reverie 4. IAMAI will internally discuss and return to the Panel Chair with their suggestion on the Co-chair within the next seven days. Sarmad to help on-board the co-chair if required. 5. When the four as above is done within the next week, the NBGP will call a meeting over the next 15 days or so to discuss and plan next steps. ICANN: Sarmad/IDN team to support meeting management for calls as required. 6. Once we are through with the Devanagari LGR, we can treat that as a guiding document and start working on other scripts on similar lines. However, it is not assumed that Devanagari case will be able to address all the nuances that are there among all other Brahmi-based scripts. We will definitely need to take up each script separately. But the Devanagari LGR document should present a clear picture of the template to be followed. Also, in this way, at least 11 languages using Devanagari would be onboard using/testing/commenting on a part of what the NBGP has done. 7. We should also aim for regular online meetings of the panel to make progress and involve the panel members. The meeting ended with thanks to all. Professor Udaya Narayana Singh Chair, NBGP Cell: +91-98301-32234 & 94340-50218 Formerly, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan & Former Director, Central Inst of Indian Languages (CIIL) Home-page www.udayanarayana.com <http://www.udayanarayana.com/> On Friday, 3 March 2017 10:16 AM, Udaya Narayana Singh <unsciil@yahoo.com> wrote: Dear Members, I am pleased to share with you that since the ICANN57 meeting held in Hyderabad in November 2016, there has been increased interest in Internationalized Domain Names and proliferation of Indic content in India. The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) hosted a session on Proliferation of Indic Computing at ICANN57 which was well-attended by members of government, industry, academia and civil society. Over the past few months, we have seen growing interest by those in Indic computing, to participate in the Neo Brahmi Generation Panel (NBGP). Apart from that, the Government of India is very keen for the early development of Indic computing resources, to facilitate greater penetration of Indic computing. Therefore, with that in mind, ICANN is organizing a half-day session, particularly for members of IAMAI on 8th March 2017, in New Delhi. The full agenda for this meeting follows below. NBGP members are invited to a meeting with IAMAI to discuss how industry can actively and effectively contribute to NBGP in taking the Generation Panel¹s work forward to develop the Neo-Brahmi Label Generation Rules to support local language IDNs at the top-level. You may like to join this meeting in person, if deputed by your institution or project/programme, or alternatively, by remote telephonic participation. I request those who wish to join - either in person or by phone - to please send a line of confirmation by 6th March to Mr Samiran Gupta, Head, ICANN-India at : +91 99902 18198, E-mail: samiran.gupta@icann. org <mailto:samiran.gupta@icann.org> Skype: samiran.gupta.icann. For those joining by phone, dial-in details will be provided subsequently. Please note the agenda: _____ ICANN NEO BRAHMI GENERATION PANEL INDUSTRY ONBOARDING MEETING LUTYENS BALLROOM, EROS HOTEL, NEW DELHI, INDIA AGENDA 8th March, 2017 10:00 ­ 13:30 Hrs TIME SUBJECT LEAD 10:00 ­ 10:30 Refreshments 10:30 ­ 10:40 Welcome and Introductions; Introductions of remote participants Samiran Gupta 10:40 ­ 10:50 Welcome address by Chair, NBGP Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh 10:50 ­ 11:00 Introduction to IAMAI IAMAI 11:00 ­ 11:25 Introduction to ICANN¹s IDN TLD program · Objective of IDN TLD Program · The role of a GPs · Role of community members · Current state of progress of different GPs · Scope of the NBGP Sarmad Hussain 11:25 ­ 11:45 Update on NBGP progress and next steps Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh Akshat Joshi, C-DAC 11:45 ­ 12:00 Tea/coffee break 12:00 ­ 13:30 · Participants¹ discussion on role of industry and business community in the NBGP · Conclusion and call to action All participants 13:30 Lunch at Blooms Restaurant With best wishes, Professor Udaya Narayana Singh Chair, Neo-Brahmi Panel (NBGP), ICANN Cell: +91-98301-32234 & 94340-50218 Home-page www.udayanarayana.com <http://www.udayanarayana.com/> Position Name Organization Country Language Expertise Chair Udaya Narayana SinghVisva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West BengalIndiaBengali, Maithili,Hindi, English Member Anupam AgrawalTata Consultancy ServiceIndiaHindi, Bengali MemberAkshat S. JoshiC-DACIndiaHindi, Marathi MemberAbhijit DuttaWikimediaIndiaBengali, Hindi MemberMahesh D. KulkarniC-DACIndiaMarathi, Hindi MemberNeha GuptaC-DACIndiaHindi MemberNishit JainC-DACIndiaHindi MemberPrabhakar PandeyC-DACIndiaHindi MemberRaiomond DoctorNLP ConsultantIndiaEnglish, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati MemberN. DeivaSundaramNDS Lingsoft Solutions Pvt LtdIndiaTamil MemberShantaram S. Warde WalawalikarIndependent ResearcherIndiaKonkani MemberBal Krishna BalKathmandu UniversityNepalNepali MemberGanesh MurmuRanchi UniversityIndiaSantali MemberBalaram PrasainTribhuvan UniversityNepalNepali MemberRajib ChakrabortySociety for Natural Language Technology ResearchIndiaBangla (Bengali) MemberGurpreet Singh LehalPunjabi University PatialaIndiaPanjabi MemberSaroja BhateUniversity of PuneIndiaSanskrit MemberShambhu Kumar SinghNational Translation Misson, MysoreIndiaMaithili MemberSwarnaPrabha ChainaryGuwahati UniversityIndiaBodo MemberGhanashyam NepalBenares Hindu University& University of North BengalIndiaNepali MemberKalyan Vasudeo KaleFormerly affiliated with University of PuneIndiaMarathi MemberShashi PathaniaP.G.D. of Dogri, University of JammuIndiaDogri MemberSanthosh Thottingal Wikimedia foundationIndiaMalayalam, Sourashtra, Tamil MemberUma Maheshwar G CALTS, Univ. of HyderabadIndiaTelugu MemberGirish Chandra Mishra Language Technology Centre, Ravenshaw University IndiaOdia MemberK. 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Dear Chitrita, Prof. Udaya, Thank you for the nomination of Dr. Ajay Data. We are excited to have IAMAI on board and look forward to increased participation from the industry. We would also welcome the leadership of Mahesh Kulkarni – if he is willing to accept the nomination request by Prof. Udaya. We will work with the co-chairs to start regular meetings of NBGP to move the work forward, and get back to all of you with further details soon. Regards, Sarmad From: Udaya Narayana Singh [mailto:unsciil51@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 10:14 AM To: Chitrita <chitrita@iamai.in>; Samiran Gupta <samiran.gupta@icann.org>; Sarmad Hussain <sarmad.hussain@icann.org> Cc: Udaya Narayana Singh <unsciil@yahoo.com>; Mahesh Kulkarni <mdk@cdac.in>; Akshat Joshi <akshatj@cdac.in>; Neha Gupta <nehag@cdac.in>; Doc <raymond.doctor@gmail.com>; Maheshdkulkarni@gmail Com <maheshdkulkarni@gmail.com>; NeobrahmiGP@icann.org Subject: [Ext] Re: [Neobrahmigp] INVITATION TO ATTEND ICANN NEO BRAHMI GENERATION PANEL INDUSTRY ONBOARDING MEETING Dear Friends and Colleagues, If it is not impossible under the ICANN provisions, we could surely agree to accept someone like Dr Ajay Data from the IAMAI as the Co-Chair of NBGP to accelerate the task at hand. However, if it is not too odd, may we also have Mahesh Kulkarni-ji on the board as Co-Chair - requesting him to take greater interest in pushing this work. Would of course wait for Samiran and Sarmad to react and take appropriate steps. Warm regards, Udaya Narayana Singh 9830132234 9434050218 Udaya Narayana Singh Address: B1 & C1, Dakshinayan, Abanpally, Santiniketan 731235 (WB) Formerly Professor, Rabindra Bhavana, Visva-Bharati (University) Former Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore Cell: 94340-50218 & 98301-32234 Home-page www.udayanarayana.com[udayanarayana.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.udayanarayana.com_&d...> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Chitrita <chitrita@iamai.in<mailto:chitrita@iamai.in>> wrote: Dear All, On behalf of IAMAI, I am happy to propose the name of Dr Ajay Data as one of the co-chairs for this committee. I await response regarding the 2nd nomination. Will revert on that shortly. Dr Data brings with him a huge repository of domain knowledge and expertise in the field, apart from the passion to drive the NBGP agenda to achieve desired results, I hope his nomination finds acceptance within the panel. Sincere regards, Chitrita -- Chitrita Chatterjee Associate Vice President Internet & Mobile Association of India #28, First Floor Okhla Industrial estate; Phase III New Delhi-1100020 [India] mob: +91 98104 77552; Landline: 011-41766666 website: www.iamai.in[iamai.in]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.iamai.in&d=DwMFaQ&c=...> blog: http://awanderingaesthete.blogspot.com[awanderingaesthete.blogspot.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__awanderingaesthete.blogspot.com&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=KTETvEaGPwPcawI-QmNa-kiv-ZBvdgyyLm-mxd028M4&m=s9CEAAjWH-NIq0nVeRHiRfc85hNESDenDDRefasH8vc&s=bN1yQGQTOKGTIbcv-IJeNfhOxIjztGCVtWloxqIyOjk&e=> From: Udaya Narayana Singh <unsciil@yahoo.com<mailto:unsciil@yahoo.com>> Reply-To: Udaya Narayana Singh <unsciil@yahoo.com<mailto:unsciil@yahoo.com>> Date: Friday, 24 March 2017 4:12 pm To: Administrator <chitrita@iamai.in<mailto:chitrita@iamai.in>>, Mahesh Kulkarni <mdk@cdac.in<mailto:mdk@cdac.in>>, Akshat Joshi <akshatj@cdac.in<mailto:akshatj@cdac.in>>, Neha Gupta <nehag@cdac.in<mailto:nehag@cdac.in>>, Doc <raymond.doctor@gmail.com<mailto:raymond.doctor@gmail.com>>, "Maheshdkulkarni@gmail Com" <maheshdkulkarni@gmail.com<mailto:maheshdkulkarni@gmail.com>>, "NeobrahmiGP@icann.org<mailto:NeobrahmiGP@icann.org>" <NeobrahmiGP@icann.org<mailto:NeobrahmiGP@icann.org>> Subject: Re: [Neobrahmigp] INVITATION TO ATTEND ICANN NEO BRAHMI GENERATION PANEL INDUSTRY ONBOARDING MEETING Dear Chitrita, The report will be very useful in my work - also for my own understanding of the issues. We will wait for your suggestion on the Co-Chair issue. Regards, Professor Udaya Narayana Singh Chair-Professor & Head, ACLS Amity Centre for Linguistic Studies (ACLS) Amity University Haryana, Gurgaon Pachgaon, Manesar PIN 122431 Cell: +91-98301-32234 & 94340-50218 Formerly, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan & Former Director, Central Inst of Indian Languages (CIIL) Home-page www.udayanarayana.com[udayanarayana.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.udayanarayana.com_&d...> On Friday, 24 March 2017 2:45 PM, Chitrita <chitrita@iamai.in<mailto:chitrita@iamai.in>> wrote: Dear Professor Singh, Thanks for sharing the minutes. As promised during the meeting, I am attaching herewith a soft copy of the latest I-cube 2016 [Internet in India-2016] I do hope this will be of interest. Regarding suggesting names for the Co-Chair, I will revert by tomorrow with names/nomination. warm regards, Chitrita -- Chitrita Chatterjee Associate Vice President Internet & Mobile Association of India #28, First Floor Okhla Industrial estate; Phase III New Delhi-1100020 [India] mob: +91 98104 77552; Landline: 011-41766666 website: www.iamai.in[iamai.in]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.iamai.in&d=DwMFaQ&c=...> blog: http://awanderingaesthete.blogspot.com[awanderingaesthete.blogspot.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__awanderingaesthete.blogspot.com_&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=KTETvEaGPwPcawI-QmNa-kiv-ZBvdgyyLm-mxd028M4&m=s9CEAAjWH-NIq0nVeRHiRfc85hNESDenDDRefasH8vc&s=WaBOHBfPBYEYJlubTFxdulP4Kbotbw0re2D6iiziAZA&e=> From: Udaya Narayana Singh via Neobrahmigp <neobrahmigp@icann.org<mailto:neobrahmigp@icann.org>> Reply-To: Udaya Narayana Singh <unsciil@yahoo.com<mailto:unsciil@yahoo.com>> Date: Thursday, 9 March 2017 5:48 pm To: Udaya Narayana Singh <unsciil@yahoo.com<mailto:unsciil@yahoo.com>>, Mahesh Kulkarni <mdk@cdac.in<mailto:mdk@cdac.in>>, Akshat Joshi <akshatj@cdac.in<mailto:akshatj@cdac.in>>, Neha Gupta <nehag@cdac.in<mailto:nehag@cdac.in>>, Doc <raymond.doctor@gmail.com<mailto:raymond.doctor@gmail.com>>, "Maheshdkulkarni@gmail Com" <maheshdkulkarni@gmail.com<mailto:maheshdkulkarni@gmail.com>>, "NeobrahmiGP@icann.org<mailto:NeobrahmiGP@icann.org>" <NeobrahmiGP@icann.org<mailto:NeobrahmiGP@icann.org>> Subject: Re: [Neobrahmigp] INVITATION TO ATTEND ICANN NEO BRAHMI GENERATION PANEL INDUSTRY ONBOARDING MEETING MINUTES OF THE NBGP INDUSTRY ONBOARD MEETING & ACTION PLAN The half-a-day NBGP Meeting to discuss how industry, and especially members of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) could actively and effectively contribute to the Neo-Brahmi Generation Panel’s work forward to development of Label Generation Rules to support local language IDNs at the top-level was held in Eros Hotel on 8th March 2017 10.30 AM onwards where members and invitees attended the meeting in person as well as online or from by remote telephonic participation. Since the ICANN57 held in Hyderabad in November 2016, there has been increased interest in Internationalized Domain Names and proliferation of Indic content in India, and the NBGP was pleased to find four members of the industry participating in person - beginning with Ms Chitrita Chatterji, the President of IAMAI, Dr Ajay Data, Ms Sukriti Gupta of the Jagaran Digital group and Vijayananda Prabhu of the Reverie, Bangalore. Hosting the meeting were Samiran Gupta assisted by Gangesh Verma) and Sarmad Hussain, and there were Akshat Joshi from C-DAC as well as Dr U.V. Pavanaja who joined online. The meeting was chaired by Professor Udaya Narayana Singh. The key outcomes were as follows: 1. Akshat Joshi (C-DAC) informed all that NBGP is almost ready with the first-cut of the Devanagari LGR document which has been initially checked by the Integration Panel members. He would now do the following: a. Send a mail to the panel advising current status of work on Devanagari and proposed next steps. b. share updated report (which is now “80% done”) with the panel members within seven days for their inputs and comments to take it to 95% completion. c. Soon after the initial reactions and comments, the Report will be sent again to the Integration Panel as well as put in the public domains for comments and criticisms. 2. It was also agreed that NBGP will have a Co-Chair, preferably from the relevant Industry, in this case, from IAMAI to accelerate the task of the panel. 3. It was also agreed to induct more members from the IAMAI - for which the proposals would be received and acted upon. The would request an addition of three new members to the panel, perhaps the following: i. Sukriti Gupta from Jagran Digital ii. Someone from Times Internet iii. Perrhaps Vijayananda from Reverie 4. IAMAI will internally discuss and return to the Panel Chair with their suggestion on the Co-chair within the next seven days. Sarmad to help on-board the co-chair if required. 5. When the four as above is done within the next week, the NBGP will call a meeting over the next 15 days or so to discuss and plan next steps. ICANN: Sarmad/IDN team to support meeting management for calls as required. 6. Once we are through with the Devanagari LGR, we can treat that as a guiding document and start working on other scripts on similar lines. However, it is not assumed that Devanagari case will be able to address all the nuances that are there among all other Brahmi-based scripts. We will definitely need to take up each script separately. But the Devanagari LGR document should present a clear picture of the template to be followed. Also, in this way, at least 11 languages using Devanagari would be onboard using/testing/commenting on a part of what the NBGP has done. 7. We should also aim for regular online meetings of the panel to make progress and involve the panel members. The meeting ended with thanks to all. Professor Udaya Narayana Singh Chair, NBGP Cell: +91-98301-32234 & 94340-50218 Formerly, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan & Former Director, Central Inst of Indian Languages (CIIL) Home-page www.udayanarayana.com[udayanarayana.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.udayanarayana.com_&d...> On Friday, 3 March 2017 10:16 AM, Udaya Narayana Singh <unsciil@yahoo.com<mailto:unsciil@yahoo.com>> wrote: Dear Members, I am pleased to share with you that since the ICANN57 meeting held in Hyderabad in November 2016, there has been increased interest in Internationalized Domain Names and proliferation of Indic content in India. The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) hosted a session on Proliferation of Indic Computing at ICANN57 which was well-attended by members of government, industry, academia and civil society. Over the past few months, we have seen growing interest by those in Indic computing, to participate in the Neo Brahmi Generation Panel (NBGP). Apart from that, the Government of India is very keen for the early development of Indic computing resources, to facilitate greater penetration of Indic computing. Therefore, with that in mind, ICANN is organizing a half-day session, particularly for members of IAMAI on 8th March 2017, in New Delhi. The full agenda for this meeting follows below. NBGP members are invited to a meeting with IAMAI to discuss how industry can actively and effectively contribute to NBGP in taking the Generation Panel’s work forward to develop the Neo-Brahmi Label Generation Rules to support local language IDNs at the top-level. You may like to join this meeting in person, if deputed by your institution or project/programme, or alternatively, by remote telephonic participation. I request those who wish to join - either in person or by phone - to please send a line of confirmation by 6th March to Mr Samiran Gupta, Head, ICANN-India at : +91 99902 18198, E-mail: samiran.gupta@icann. org<mailto:samiran.gupta@icann.org> Skype: samiran.gupta.icann. For those joining by phone, dial-in details will be provided subsequently. Please note the agenda: _____ ICANN NEO BRAHMI GENERATION PANEL INDUSTRY ONBOARDING MEETING LUTYENS BALLROOM, EROS HOTEL, NEW DELHI, INDIA AGENDA 8th March, 2017 10:00 – 13:30 Hrs TIME SUBJECT LEAD 10:00 – 10:30 Refreshments 10:30 – 10:40 Welcome and Introductions; Introductions of remote participants Samiran Gupta 10:40 – 10:50 Welcome address by Chair, NBGP Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh 10:50 – 11:00 Introduction to IAMAI IAMAI 11:00 – 11:25 Introduction to ICANN’s IDN TLD program · Objective of IDN TLD Program · The role of a GPs · Role of community members · Current state of progress of different GPs · Scope of the NBGP Sarmad Hussain 11:25 – 11:45 Update on NBGP progress and next steps Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh Akshat Joshi, C-DAC 11:45 – 12:00 Tea/coffee break 12:00 – 13:30 · Participants’ discussion on role of industry and business community in the NBGP · Conclusion and call to action All participants 13:30 Lunch at Blooms Restaurant With best wishes, Professor Udaya Narayana Singh Chair, Neo-Brahmi Panel (NBGP), ICANN Cell: +91-98301-32234 & 94340-50218 Home-page www.udayanarayana.com[udayanarayana.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.udayanarayana.com_&d...> Position Name Organization Country Language Expertise Chair Udaya Narayana Singh Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal India Bengali, Maithili,Hindi, English Member Anupam Agrawal Tata Consultancy Service India Hindi, Bengali Member Akshat S. Joshi C-DAC India Hindi, Marathi Member Abhijit Dutta Wikimedia India Bengali, Hindi Member Mahesh D. Kulkarni C-DAC India Marathi, Hindi Member Neha Gupta C-DAC India Hindi Member Nishit Jain C-DAC India Hindi Member Prabhakar Pandey C-DAC India Hindi Member Raiomond Doctor NLP Consultant India English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati Member N. DeivaSundaram NDS Lingsoft Solutions Pvt Ltd India Tamil Member Shantaram S. Warde Walawalikar Independent Researcher India Konkani Member Bal Krishna Bal Kathmandu University Nepal Nepali Member Ganesh Murmu Ranchi University India Santali Member Balaram Prasain Tribhuvan University Nepal Nepali Member Rajib Chakraborty Society for Natural Language Technology Research India Bangla (Bengali) Member Gurpreet Singh Lehal Punjabi University Patiala India Panjabi Member Saroja Bhate University of Pune India Sanskrit Member Shambhu Kumar Singh National Translation Misson, Mysore India Maithili Member SwarnaPrabha Chainary Guwahati University India Bodo Member Ghanashyam Nepal Benares Hindu University& University of North Bengal India Nepali Member Kalyan Vasudeo Kale Formerly affiliated with University of Pune India Marathi Member Shashi Pathania P.G.D. of Dogri, University of Jammu India Dogri Member Santhosh Thottingal Wikimedia foundation India Malayalam, Sourashtra, Tamil Member Uma Maheshwar G CALTS, Univ. of Hyderabad India Telugu Member Girish Chandra Mishra Language Technology Centre, Ravenshaw University India Odia Member K. C. Tikayat ray Odia Bhasa Pratisthan India Odia Member DEBAJIT SHARMA Anundoram Borooah Institute of Language Art and Culture India Assamese Member BASANTA KUMAR PANDA Regional Institute of Education (NCERT) India Odia Member Arvind Bhandari Gujarat University India Gujarati Member Harish Chowdhary NIXI India Hindi Member Ajay Data DATAINFOSYS India Hindi, others Member Chitrita Chatterjee Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) India Multiple languages represented by members of IAMAI Member U.B. 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I understand Mahesh ji has been away because of his daughter's marriage arrangements. But it is heartening to know about his acceptance. Regards Udaya Narayana Singh from Normandy On Apr 11, 2017 08:36, "Akshat Joshi" <akshatj@cdac.in> wrote:

Dear All,

I am happy to inform everyone that I talked to Mr. Mahesh Kulkarni and he has agreed to the proposition put forth by Prof. Udaya to be co-chair of the NBGP.

Due to his busy schedule he could not reply personally and has asked me to convey to the group.

Regards,

Akshat Joshi

On 27-03-2017 21:47, Sarmad Hussain wrote:

Dear Chitrita, Prof. Udaya,

Thank you for the nomination of Dr. Ajay Data. We are excited to have IAMAI on board and look forward to increased participation from the industry.

We would also welcome the leadership of Mahesh Kulkarni – if he is willing to accept the nomination request by Prof. Udaya.

We will work with the co-chairs to start regular meetings of NBGP to move the work forward, and get back to all of you with further details soon.

Regards, Sarmad

*From:* Udaya Narayana Singh [mailto:unsciil51@gmail.com <unsciil51@gmail.com>] *Sent:* Monday, March 27, 2017 10:14 AM *To:* Chitrita <chitrita@iamai.in> <chitrita@iamai.in>; Samiran Gupta <samiran.gupta@icann.org> <samiran.gupta@icann.org>; Sarmad Hussain <sarmad.hussain@icann.org> <sarmad.hussain@icann.org> *Cc:* Udaya Narayana Singh <unsciil@yahoo.com> <unsciil@yahoo.com>; Mahesh Kulkarni <mdk@cdac.in> <mdk@cdac.in>; Akshat Joshi <akshatj@cdac.in> <akshatj@cdac.in>; Neha Gupta <nehag@cdac.in> <nehag@cdac.in>; Doc <raymond.doctor@gmail.com> <raymond.doctor@gmail.com>; Maheshdkulkarni@gmail Com <maheshdkulkarni@gmail.com> <maheshdkulkarni@gmail.com>; NeobrahmiGP@icann.org *Subject:* [Ext] Re: [Neobrahmigp] INVITATION TO ATTEND ICANN NEO BRAHMI GENERATION PANEL INDUSTRY ONBOARDING MEETING

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

If it is not impossible under the ICANN provisions, we could surely agree to accept someone like Dr Ajay Data from the IAMAI as the Co-Chair of NBGP to accelerate the task at hand. However, if it is not too odd, may we also have Mahesh Kulkarni-ji on the board as Co-Chair - requesting him to take greater interest in pushing this work. Would of course wait for Samiran and Sarmad to react and take appropriate steps.

Warm regards,

Udaya Narayana Singh

9830132234

9434050218

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Former Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore

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On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Chitrita <chitrita@iamai.in> wrote:

Dear All,

On behalf of IAMAI, I am happy to propose the name of Dr Ajay Data as one of the co-chairs for this committee.

I await response regarding the 2nd nomination. Will revert on that shortly.

Dr Data brings with him a huge repository of domain knowledge and expertise in the field, apart from the passion to drive the NBGP agenda to achieve desired results, I hope his nomination finds acceptance within the panel.

Sincere regards,

Chitrita

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Internet & Mobile Association of India

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Dear Chitrita,

The report will be very useful in my work - also for my own understanding of the issues. We will wait for your suggestion on the Co-Chair issue. Regards,

Professor Udaya Narayana Singh

Chair-Professor & Head, ACLS

Amity Centre for Linguistic Studies (ACLS)

Amity University Haryana, Gurgaon

Pachgaon, Manesar PIN 122431

Cell: +91-98301-32234 <+91%2098301%2032234> & 94340-50218

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Former Director, Central Inst of Indian Languages (CIIL)

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On Friday, 24 March 2017 2:45 PM, Chitrita <chitrita@iamai.in> wrote:

Dear Professor Singh,

Thanks for sharing the minutes. As promised during the meeting, I am attaching herewith a soft copy of the latest I-cube 2016 [Internet in India-2016]

I do hope this will be of interest.

Regarding suggesting names for the Co-Chair, I will revert by tomorrow with names/nomination.

warm regards,

Chitrita

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Associate Vice President

Internet & Mobile Association of India

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MINUTES OF THE NBGP INDUSTRY ONBOARD MEETING & ACTION PLAN

The half-a-day NBGP Meeting to discuss how industry, and especially members of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) could actively and effectively contribute to the Neo-Brahmi Generation Panel’s work forward to development of Label Generation Rules to support local language IDNs at the top-level was held in Eros Hotel on 8th March 2017 10.30 AM onwards where members and invitees attended the meeting in person as well as online or from by remote telephonic participation.

Since the ICANN57 held in Hyderabad in November 2016, there has been increased interest in Internationalized Domain Names and proliferation of Indic content in India, and the NBGP was pleased to find four members of the industry participating in person - beginning with Ms Chitrita Chatterji, the President of IAMAI, Dr Ajay Data, Ms Sukriti Gupta of the Jagaran Digital group and Vijayananda Prabhu of the Reverie, Bangalore. Hosting the meeting were Samiran Gupta assisted by Gangesh Verma) and Sarmad Hussain, and there were Akshat Joshi from C-DAC as well as Dr U.V. Pavanaja who joined online. The meeting was chaired by Professor Udaya Narayana Singh.

The key outcomes were as follows:

1. Akshat Joshi (C-DAC) informed all that NBGP is almost ready with the first-cut of the Devanagari LGR document which has been initially checked by the Integration Panel members. He would now do the following:

a. Send a mail to the panel advising current status of work on Devanagari and proposed next steps.

b. share updated report (which is now “80% done”) with the panel members within seven days for their inputs and comments to take it to 95% completion.

c. Soon after the initial reactions and comments, the Report will be sent again to the Integration Panel as well as put in the public domains for comments and criticisms.

2. It was also agreed that NBGP will have a Co-Chair, preferably from the relevant Industry, in this case, from IAMAI to accelerate the task of the panel.

3. It was also agreed to induct more members from the IAMAI - for which the proposals would be received and acted upon. The would request an addition of three new members to the panel, perhaps the following:

i. Sukriti Gupta from Jagran Digital

ii. Someone from Times Internet

iii. Perrhaps Vijayananda from Reverie

4. IAMAI will internally discuss and return to the Panel Chair with their suggestion on the Co-chair within the next seven days. Sarmad to help on-board the co-chair if required.

5. When the four as above is done within the next week, the NBGP will call a meeting over the next 15 days or so to discuss and plan next steps. ICANN: Sarmad/IDN team to support meeting management for calls as required.

6. Once we are through with the Devanagari LGR, we can treat that as a guiding document and start working on other scripts on similar lines. However, it is not assumed that Devanagari case will be able to address all the nuances that are there among all other Brahmi-based scripts. We will definitely need to take up each script separately. But the Devanagari LGR document should present a clear picture of the template to be followed. Also, in this way, at least 11 languages using Devanagari would be onboard using/testing/commenting on a part of what the NBGP has done.

7. We should also aim for regular online meetings of the panel to make progress and involve the panel members.

The meeting ended with thanks to all.

Professor Udaya Narayana Singh

Chair, NBGP

Cell: +91-98301-32234 <+91%2098301%2032234> & 94340-50218

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On Friday, 3 March 2017 10:16 AM, Udaya Narayana Singh <unsciil@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear Members,

I am pleased to share with you that since the ICANN57 meeting held in Hyderabad in November 2016, there has been increased interest in Internationalized Domain Names and proliferation of Indic content in India. The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) hosted a session on *Proliferation of Indic Computing* at ICANN57 which was well-attended by members of government, industry, academia and civil society. Over the past few months, we have seen growing interest by those in Indic computing, to participate in the Neo Brahmi Generation Panel (NBGP). Apart from that, the Government of India is very keen for the early development of Indic computing resources, to facilitate greater penetration of Indic computing.

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