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Seeking comment: Project 6: Preliminary Discussion Draft Document for User Experience Implication of active TLDs.
by Dennis Chang June 26, 2012

June 26, 2012

Dear friends and colleagues of the IDN Variant Program, Attached is the draft study proposal for examining the user experience implications of active variant TLDs. Also known as the IDN Project 6. We are sending this out in advance of the ICANN Prague session to facilitate fruitful discussions at the session. We invite you to attend the IDN Variant Program session on Thursday, June 29. 11:00 to 12:30. (Prague time) for a brief of the IDN Variant Program followed by P6 discussion. If you'd like to provide your feed-back via email please write to idnp6(a)icann.org Kind Regards, Dennis Chang Executive Program Management Consultant dennis.chang(a)icann.org 213-293-7889 Skype: dennisschang

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Request for support in Seeking User Experience Expert Consultant
by Dennis Chang June 20, 2012

June 20, 2012

Dear friends and colleagues, The IDN Variant Program team requests your support in recruiting a consultant for our IDN Project 6: Examining the User Experience Implications of Active Variant TLDs Attached is the description for the role and application instruction. Please feel free to forward to anyone who may be interested. Kind Regards, Dennis Chang Executive Program Management Consultant dennis.chang(a)icann.org 213-293-7889 Skype: dennisschang

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FW: ICANN News Alert -- Call for Volunteers: Developing the Process for Root IDN Table Creation and Maintenance
by Francisco Arias June 18, 2012

June 18, 2012

The email below may be of interest to you. Regards, __ Francisco. On 6/18/12 1:24 PM, "ICANN News Alert" <communications(a)icann.org> wrote: > ICANN News Alert > <http://www.icann.org/> > News Alert > http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-18jun12-en.htm > > Call for Volunteers: Developing the Process for Root IDN Table Creation and > Maintenance > 18 June 2012 > > * Deadline for responses is 13 July 2012 > > ICANN is seeking volunteers to work on advancing IDN capabilities in the DNS. > The project 2.1 "Root IDN Table Process" part of the IDN Variant TLD Program, > is designed to develop, in consultation with the community, the process to > define: > * allowed code points, > * corresponding variant code points, and > * related allowed states for IDN Variant TLDs. > ICANN is soliciting participation from volunteers with the following areas of > expertise: IDNA, DNS, Linguistics/Unicode, Policy. > > The project team will include additional consultant expertise to help in the > process. > > ICANN has a limited budget to support team meetings such as travel, > accommodation, and other expenses. > General responsibilities for volunteers: > * Contribute to developing the Process for Root IDN Table Creation and > Maintenance > * Research and provide input on issues discussed during meetings > * Attend two face-to-face meetings (likely during the last week of August in > Los Angeles, US, and mid-October 2012 in Toronto, Canada) > * Participate in regular teleconferences (time to be determined) > * Expected time commitment of 2 to 4 hours per week during a 4-month period > IDNA Expertise qualifications: > * Expertise with IDNA and preferably active on internationalization work > * Participation in relevant IDNA working groups > DNS Expertise qualifications: > * Expertise with DNS standards > * Active in related DNS technical fora (e.g., IETF DNSext, DNSop) > Linguistics/Unicode expertise qualifications: > * Expertise in linguistics > * Familiarity with Unicode > Policy expertise qualifications: > * Participation in ICANN's policy development process; or > * Have participated in, at least, one ICANN working group, preferably on IDN > related issues > Selection and Recruitment Process for Case Study Members: > * Indications of interest should be sent to idnvarianttlds(a)icann.org no later > than 13 July 2012. > * Interested experts are invited to submit a résumé (Curriculum Vitae) and an > expression of interest statement demonstrating how they meet the > qualifications for one or more of the areas of expertise specified above. > * The ICANN IDN Variant TLD Program team will select the team members ensuring > a diverse composition of the members in terms of language/script communities > represented. > * Applicants will be notified no later than 30 July 2012. > Background on the IDN Variant TLD Program > On 20 April 2011, ICANN announced the IDN Variant Issues Project to explore > the benefits and risks associated with the potential inclusion of IDN variant > TLDs in the DNS root zone. This project was initiated in response to a 2010 > ICANN Board of Directors resolution > <http://icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-25sep10-en.htm#2.5> . > Two phases of the project have been completed to date. > > Phase I involved the formation of six case study teams for the Arabic, > Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek and Latin scripts. These teams were > comprised of community experts with support from ICANN that worked on > identifying issues related to IDN variant TLDs for each particular script, > resulting in the publication in October 2011 of six individual reports > detailing their findings. > > Phase II focused on integrating those six case study reports into the > Integrated Issues Report. To complete this phase, ICANN formed a coordination > team comprised of experts from each of the case study teams. The coordination > team advised ICANN on completing the Integrated Issues Report, which > summarizes and categorizes the various issues related to the identification > and management of IDN variant TLDs. > > The next phase (phase III) outlined in the proposed program plan > <http://icann.org/en/news/public-comment/idn-variant-tld-revised-program-pla… > 04may12-en.htm> includes a number of activities resulting from the issues > identified in the final Integrated Issues Report > <http://icann.org/en/resources/idn/idn-vip-integrated-issues-final-clean-20f… > 12-en.pdf> [PDF, 2.15 MB]. The work is now focused on using the approach > outlined in the Integrated Issues Report to define milestones that must be > completed to manage the implementation of IDN variant TLDs. > > The goal of the program is to define the necessary processes that must be in > place to enable the management of variant TLDs. This incorporates the creation > and maintenance of IDN tables for the root zone, and updating operational > processes as appropriate to allow for the implementation of the IDN variant > TLDs. > > > > Email Market

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