IDN Variant Issues Project
Arabic Case Study Team
Conference Call
Tuesday  26 July 07:00AM UTC

On the call: Sarmad Hussein, Manal Ismail, Fahd Batayneh, Iftikhar Shah, Huda Sarfraz, Raed Al-Fayez

ICANN staff: Baher Esmat

Agenda:
Discuss variant issues in relation to UDRP. List of issues were circulated by Manal earlier. 
  
Discussion revolved around the following issues / questions:

Filing a Complaint/Case:
	•	Could a case exist where a complainer claims right over a member (a label) from within a bundle? Will the dispute differ if the disputed domain name is active, blocked or reserved? will the whole bundle be somehow included in this case?
	•	Could a case exist where a complainer claims right over a whole bundle? Will all bundle members be consolidated as one case?
	•	Could a case exist where a complainer claims right over a bundle containing members/labels in different languages? Within the same script? Across different scripts?
	•	How to prove ‘Bad Faith’ in case of inactive domain names (i.e. blocked or reserved within a bundle)?
	•	May registrants be forced into disputes as a result of automated bundling?
	•	Could a case be filed against a domain name that is still under request or does it have to be delegated?
	•	when do whois query, will it or will it not list all possible variants?
	•	Can a registry change language table over time? 

From discussion, there appeared to be a need to unify terminology: complaint/case; string/label; delegated reserved/delegated blocked, etc.

There was a question as to whether the final report would include questions or statements. Team agreed that where there was a consensus it would be helpful to be clear about requirements, otherwise questions could be raised. In either case, team is not expected to propose solutions (answer all questions).