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Background: At its May 2021 meeting, the GNSO Council resolved to initiate the Expedited Policy Development Process on Internationalized Domain Names (EPDP on IDNs) and to approve the EPDP Team Charter. The Council agreed that an EPDP was appropriate and needed to address the topic of IDNs because policy in IDNs has been "substantially scoped previously such that extensive, pertinent background information already exists", which includes the IDN-related Outputs from the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP that the Council had approved on at its February 2021 meeting. The EPDP on IDNs has been structured as a "Representative + Open" model and a call for members, participants and observers was made by the GNSO Secretariat on 3 June 2021.  At-Large Staff then issued a call for At-Large member expressions of interest for the ALAC Appointee Selection Committee to consider and to select 3 members to represent the ALAC on this EPDP.

To encourage APRALO Members (both ALS Members and Individual Members) with an interest in IDNs to respond to both the At-Large call for members and the GNSO's call for participants and observers volunteers to this EPDP on IDNs, the APRALO Policy Forum Co-Chairs Satish Babu and Justine Chew are organizing an introductory APRALO Webinar on IDNs to help build the capacity of our RALO members to engage meaningfully in the work of this EPDP. In service of this goal, the webinar is expected to, among other things, broadly address the following: 

• The basics of IDN (including the link to UA and EAI) and IDN Variants
• Origin of RZ-LGR Procedures and how it works; scripts already covered and those which are in progress or not yet addressed
• Brief overview on IDN Variant TLD Management, highlighting the ICANN Board's 2010 resolution on need for variant management solution to be in place prior to next round of New gTLDs 
• Lead up to a brief introduction to the EPDP on IDNs 

Status: Ongoing

Background: Tentatively code-named "Project RoSI", this project is intended to produce a dynamic Register of Skills & Interests for APRALO.

Status: Ongoing.  

Dedicated Workspace:  Project RoSI Workspace

Current Status: This project remains inactive at this juncture.