Dear All, Here is a tentative list of updates, meetings and sessions by the IDN Program at ICANN51. Please feel free to share with others relevant in the community. We look forward to your participation. Regards, Sarmad IDN Program related Updates, Meetings and Sessions (Tentative) @ ICANN 51 Updated on 29 September 2014 Updates at ICANN51 Saturday: IDN Program Update to GNSO 9:45-10:15am (30 mins) Tuesday: IDN Program Update to ALAC 11:00 - 11:15am (15 mins) Tuesday: IDN Program Update to ccNSO 4:20pm - 4:35pm (15 mins) Informal Meetings at ICANN51 (Not announced publicly; to participate please email to <mailto:idntlds@icann.org> idntlds@icann.org) (Location will be finalized and announced on Friday to those who have shown interest to participate) Monday: Latin Community Meeting to Formulate a Latin Generation Panel 2:00-3:30pm Tuesday: Cyrillic Community Meeting to Formulate a Cyrillic Generation Panel 2:00-3:30pm Formal Sessions at ICANN51 - ALL SESSIONS ARE OPEN (will be updated in the Online Schedule) Wednesday 15 September 8:30-9:45am IDN Program Update 10:00-11:15am 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 to the Workshop - Sarmad Hussain 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 - 25 mins