IDN Variant Issues Project
Arabic Case Study Team
Conference Call
Tuesday  16 Aug 11:00AM UTC

On the call:
Sarmad Hussain, Manal Ismail, Iftikhar Shah, Huda Sarfraz, Fahd Batayneh, Behnam Esfahod         

Continue the discussion on UDRP issues was the main item on the agenda. Before getting to that, team wanted to agree on some administrative issues:

Dates of the face-to-face meeting were confirmed (13,14,15 Sep). Team members should reply to Mohamed El-Bashir's email regarding visa process and travel support. Due date for submitting the information to be provided by Baher and Mohamed. 

Issues document first draft (already circulated by Sarmad) should be finalized before f2f meeting. Sarmad requested team members to look into it and provide feedback on the structure / content. The aim is to finalize the draft towards the end of August and have it posted on the community wiki. 

Definitions document first draft to be circulated by Manal. Manal will send an initial list of terms before end of this week. Manal noted that she will be on annual leave next week. Manal with help from one team member (volunteers needed) will then work on definitions for these terms.

Team discussed the remaining list of UDRP issues (below). Team noted that some of those issues should fall under WHOIS rather than UDRP. Team also raised some questions on WHOIS which they are going to compile and send to ICANN for feedback. 

Some of the WHOIS/UDRP issues raised seemed to be more relevant at the second level than at the top level, and may therefore be out of the scope of this project. However, it was noted that the introduction of variant TLDs may have implications in relation to WHOIS/UDRP at second level.  

It was noted that UDRP cases may have implication on bundles hence implication on language tables -> could language tables change over time?

Next call on Tuesday 23 August. Team will discuss end-users and system administration issues. While the team thought these issues were relevant to this project, some cautioned over deviation towards more general IDN issues.  

List of remaining UDRP issues:
	•	What Whois data is to be displayed while a member of a bundle is on dispute? 
	•	Should the registry display the current status of  labels / members of a bundle?
	•	Could there be any limitation to the number of members of bundle variant that can be activated against a given domain name?
	•	Could there be any consent of regional government be taken against any regional language dispute?
	•	Could any weightage be given to government entity over private entity  in case of a dispute?
	•	Could there be any DNS security  issue due to a bundle having  a  large number of  members / labels?
	•	Could there be any need to  impose  a  limit about the numbers of members/labels of a bundle to over come the complexity of DNSSEC