Dear Colleagues of the IDN Variant Program, The IDN Variant P6 team opened a public comment period for the final draft report "Examining the User Experience Implications of Active Variant TLDs". http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/variant-ux-18jan13-en.htm We look forward to hearing from you. Thank you all for your support of the IDN Variant Program, Dennis Chang Executive Program Management Consultant dennis.chang@icann.org 213-293-7889 Skype: dennisschang -----Original Message----- From: Nicole Davenport via RT [mailto:web-admin@icann.org] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 17:21 To: Dennis Chang Subject: [iticket #64719] [COMPLETED] Public comment open request Hi Dennis, The Public Comment materials have been published: http://www.icann.org/ http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-18jan13-en.htm http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/variant-ux-18jan13-en.htm http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/variant-active-ux-18jan13-en.pdf Best, Nicole On Fri Jan 18 15:26:53 2013, dennis.chang wrote:

Please post today

Kind Regards,

Dennis Chang

Executive Program Management Consultant

dennis.chang@icann.org

213-293-7889

Skype: dennisschang

From: Steve Sheng Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 2:56 PM To: Francisco Arias; Dennis Chang Subject: Re: FOR PUBLICATION APPROVAL: Draft final report examining user experience implications for IDN Variant TLDs

Please use this version.

Kind regards,

Steve

From: Francisco Arias <francisco.arias@icann.org> Date: Friday, January 18, 2013 2:51 PM To: Dennis Chang <dennis.chang@icann.org> Cc: Steve Sheng <steve.sheng@icann.org> Subject: Re: FOR PUBLICATION APPROVAL: Draft final report examining user experience implications for IDN Variant TLDs

Dennis,

Please go ahead and publish the report for public comment.

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Francisco.

On 1/18/13 2:06 PM, "Dennis Chang" <dennis.chang@icann.org> wrote:

OK to post or wait?

Kind Regards,

Dennis Chang

Executive Program Management Consultant

dennis.chang@icann.org

213-293-7889

Skype: dennisschang

From: Francisco Arias Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 12:46 PM To: Dennis Chang Cc: Steve Sheng Subject: Re: FOR PUBLICATION APPROVAL: Draft final report examining user experience implications for IDN Variant TLDs

Hi Dennis,

Steve, Karen and I are talking about a potential issue. Please wait until 14:00 when we finish a meeting to confirm we are ready for publication. I think we will, but just to be sure.

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Francisco.

On 1/18/13 12:19 PM, "Dennis Chang" <dennis.chang@icann.org> wrote:

Thanks

I'll get it posted today.

Dennis

On Jan 18, 2013, at 11:32 AM, "Denise Michel" <denise.michel@icann.org> wrote:

This looks good and is approved for posting.

Thanks

Denise Michel

VP Strategic Initiatives

& Advisor to the President ICANN denise.michel@icann.org +1.408.429.3072 mobile +1.310.578.8632 direct denisemichelicann skype

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Steve Sheng <steve.sheng@icann.org> wrote:

Dear Denise,

Attached for your approval, please find the 18 January report examining the user experience implications for variant TLDs. We are planning to open a 21-day public comment on this report, followed by a 21 day reply period.

To better understand and address challenges surrounding the potential delegation of IDN variant TLDs. This report:

1) summarizes and compares, from a user experience and registry management perspective, variant practices in several ccTLD registries;

2) proposes a set of guiding principles to define an acceptable user experience;

3) identifies how various users communities (e.g., end users, system/network administrators, application developers, registrants, registrars and registries) will be impacted by active variant top-level domains, and

4) based on 1, 2, and 3, proposes a set of recommendations to ensure the security, stability and acceptable user experience for active variant top-level internationalized domains.

The latest draft report improves the following way from the interim report:

* Incorporated community feedback (through public comment), technical expert feedback, and additional input provided by Arabic registries, Devanagari registries, and Chinese registries. * Included a recommendation section that proposes a set of recommendations and guidelines for the introduction of IDN variant TLDs

I have already given the BV-WG a one week notice (ending today). So with both your approval, and BV-WG feedback, this report is ready for public.

Kind regards,

Steve