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FW: ICANN News Alert -- Request for Proposal for LGR Tool Set
by Sarmad Hussain March 20, 2015

March 20, 2015

Dear All, ICANN has released a RFP to develop the LGR Tool Set, which would allow creating, using and managing Label Generation Rulesets (LGRs). This tool will be released as open source for the community. Regards, Sarmad News Alert https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2015-03-19-en _____ Request for Proposal for LGR Tool Set 19 March 2015 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") is seeking a provider to design and develop software for creating, using and managing Label Generation Rulesets (LGRs) based on a new machine readable format based on the formal representation available at https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-davies-idntables. ICANN anticipates a contract to be signed and work to begin no later than May 5th 2015. ICANN hosts a repository of language and script specific data through its IANA department which is used by registries to generate labels, generally known as IDN tables <https://www.iana.org/domains/idn-tables> and now being referred to as Label Generation Rulesets (LGRs). A new machine readable XML-based format is currently being designed to organize and represent the LGR data. This format will also be used for the LGR for the Root Zone, for validating prospective top-level domain (TLD) labels and determining the variants of existing and prospective labels. The Root Zone LGR is currently being developed with the collaboration of various script communities (organized as script based Generation Panels). ICANN intends to release this software with open source license for community use and also utilize it for internal operations. For additional information and instructions for submitting responses please click here <https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rfp-lgr-toolset-19mar15-en.zip> [ZIP, 994 KB]. Proposals should be submitted to LGRToolset-rfp(a)icann.org <mailto:LGRToolset-rfp@icann.org> by 23:59 UTC on 5 April 2015. RFP timeline at a glance: Activity Dates RFP released to participants on 19 March 2015 Participants provide their intent to bid 25 March 2015 by 23:59 UTC Participants submit any questions to ICANN 25 March 2015 by 23:59 UTC ICANN responds to participant questions by 31 March 2015 Participant RFP proposals due 5 April 2015 by 23:59 UTC Preliminary evaluation of responses Week of April 6th Target for participant presentations (finalists) Week of April 13th Target for Final evaluations and selection of Provider (includes contracting and award to participant) Weeks of April 20th & 27th Estimated start of implementation 5 May 2015

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FW: ICANN News Alert -- Reference Label Generation Rulesets (LGRs) for the Second Level
by Sarmad Hussain March 18, 2015

March 18, 2015

Dear All, Kindly note a recent request for public comments. Regards, Sarmad News Alert https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2015-03-10-en _____ Reference Label Generation Rulesets (LGRs) for the Second Level 10 March 2015 _____ Forum Announcement: Comment Period Opens on Date: 10 March 2015 Categories/Tags: Second-Level Domains Purpose (Brief): During the new gTLD program's Pre-Delegation Testing (PDT), ICANN has noted a large number of IDN table submissions. The IDN tables submitted by the new gTLD registries varied in the repertoire of characters, variant and contextual rules, and format. On the request of the community, to facilitate and improve consistency of testing and stability of registry operations of new gTLDs, ICANN intends to develop reference IDN tables in machine readable format, called Label Generation Rulesets (LGRs) for the second level, for use in PDT and the Registry Service Evaluation Process (RSEP). ICANN is suggesting a process to ensure both linguistic and technical expert input and community review of these tables being developed. The community is requested to review and provide feedback on the effectiveness of the suggested process for the development of these tables, and propose any further improvements. Public Comment Box Link: https://www.icann.org/public-comments/lgr-second-level-2015-03-10-en

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FW: ICANN News Alert -- Japanese Community Forms Generation Panel for Developing the Japanese Root Zone Label Generation Rules (LGR)
by Sarmad Hussain March 18, 2015

March 18, 2015

Dear All, We are pleased to share the news on the efforts of the Japanese community towards the development of the LGR for the Root Zone. Best regards, Sarmad From: ICANN News Alert [mailto:communications@icann.org] News Alert <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-03-17-en> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-03-17-en _____ Japanese Community Forms Generation Panel for Developing the Japanese Root Zone Label Generation Rules (LGR) 17 March 2015 ICANN is pleased to announce that the Generation Panel for the Japanese Label Generation Rules (LGR) for the Root Zone has been seated. Following the <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-07-11-en> Call for Generation Panels to Develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules, on 6 February 2015 the Japanese community submitted to ICANN the <https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/japanese-lgr-proposal-17mar15-e…> Proposal for Generation Panel for Japanese Label Generation Rules for the Root Zone [PDF, 223 KB]. ICANN staff has reviewed the proposal including panel composition and scope, to ensure that requirements set forth in the <https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/lgr-procedure-20mar13-en.pdf> LGR Procedure [PDF, 772 KB], and in particular the criteria set forth in the <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-07-11-en> Call for Generation Panels to Develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules, are fulfilled. On behalf of ICANN, we would like to use this opportunity to thank each of the members for offering their time and expertise to volunteer for the Japanese Generation Panel. With composition and work plan approved, the Japanese Generation Panel will start its work on the label generation rules. According to the <https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/lgr-procedure-20mar13-en.pdf> LGR Procedure [PDF, 772 KB], the starting point of any Generation Panel's work is the Maximal Starting Repertoire (MSR), with its first version ( <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-06-20-en> MSR-1) released on 20 June 2014 and the second version ( <https://www.icann.org/public-comments/msr-2014-12-15-en> MSR-2) currently released for community review. The full specification of Generation Panel's tasks can be found in the <https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/lgr-procedure-20mar13-en.pdf> LGR Procedure [PDF, 772 KB] in particular, Section B.3 "Variant Rule Generation Procedure". ICANN has provided a central public <https://community.icann.org/display/croscomlgrprocedure/Japanese+GP> workspace on the project website where Japanese Generation Panel composition, work plan updates, public reports, contact details, and any other relevant information will be included. As a reminder, and to highlight the importance of script community involvement required in the development of the IDN Root Zone LGR, we would like to reiterate the <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-07-11-en> Call for Generation Panels to Develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules. A successful development of the Root Zone LGR depends on having Generation Panels for each script represented in the Root Zone. In addition to ongoing efforts with the Arabic, Armenian, Chinese and Japanese, Generation Panel formation is expected to cover other scripts including Bengali, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Myanmar, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Thai and Tibetan. For further information on how to form a Generation Panel, please refer to the <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-07-11-en> Call for Generation Panels to Develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules and to the additional supporting documentation provided on the <https://community.icann.org/display/croscomlgrprocedure/Root+Zone+LGR+Proje…> Root Zone LGR Project website. Individual interests may be emailed to <mailto:idntlds@icann.org> idntlds(a)icann.org. About ICANN ICANN's mission is to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet. ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet's unique identifiers. ICANN doesn't control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesn't deal with access to the Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internet's naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet. For more information please visit: <https://www.icann.org/> www.icann.org This message was sent to sarmad.hussain(a)icann.org from: ICANN News Alert | communications(a)icann.org | ICANN | 12025 Waterfront Drive Suite 300 | Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536 Email Marketing by <http://www.icontact.com/a.pl/144186> <http://app.icontact.com/icp/mmail-mprofile.pl?r=27296433&l=6333&s=95OV&m=96…>Manage Your Subscription

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