Comment/Reply Periods ^(*)

Important Information Links:

• Public Comment Announcement
• To Submit Your Comments (Forum)
• View Comments Submitted

Comment Open:

20 February 2012

Comment Close:

18 March 2012  8 April 2012

Close Time (UTC):

23:59

Reply Open:

19 March 2012  9 April 2012

Reply Close:

8 April 2012  29 April 2012

Close Time (UTC):

23:59

Brief Overview

Originating Organization:

Stakeholder Relations

Categories/Tags:

Top-Level Domains

Purpose (Brief):

To receive community feedback on the proposed project plan

Current Status:

Phase II of IDN Variant Issues Project has been completed with the publication of the final Integrated Issues Report

Next Steps:

This project plan will be discussed at the ICANN public meeting in Costa Rica in March 2012. Comments received in this forum as well as community feedback during the Costa Rica meeting will be incorporated into the final project plan.

Staff Contact:

Kurt Pritz

Email:

kurt.pritz@icann.org

Detailed Information

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Section I: Description, Explanation, and Purpose

Public Comment: IDN Variant Issues Project -- [Proposed Project Plan for Next Stepshttp://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/idn-vip-proposed-project-plan-20feb12-en.pdf] [PDF, 211 KB]
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The IDN Variant Issues Project has been exploring the issues associated with the potential inclusion of IDN variant TLDs in the DNS root zone at the request of the ICANN board and the community.
The first two phases of the project have been completed with the publication of the final Integrated Issues Report on 17 February 2012 and the project is now entering its next phase. The IDN Variant Issues Project team has created a project plan for next steps and is now seeking community input on the proposed steps forward.
The proposed project plan will be discussed at the ICANN public meeting in Costa Rica in March 2012, to determine whether and how ICANN should proceed with regard to additional work on IDN variant TLDs. This public comment period makes the project plan available to the community for review and comment prior to the Costa Rica meeting.

Section II: Background

On 20 April 2011, ICANN announced the IDN Variant Issues Project to explore the issues associated with the potential inclusion of IDN variant TLDs in the DNS root zone. This project was initiated in response to a 2010 ICANN Board of Directors resolution.
Phase I involved the formation of six case study teams for the Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek and Latin scripts. These teams were comprised of community experts with support by ICANN and worked on identifying issues related to IDN variant TLDs for each particular script, resulting in the publication in October of six individual reports detailing their findings.
Phase II focused on integrating those six case study reports into the Integrated Issues Report. To complete this phase,ICANN formed a coordination team comprised of experts from each of the case study teams. The coordination team advised ICANN in completing the Integrated Issues Report, which summarizes and categorizes the various issues related to the identification and management of IDN variant TLDs.
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Section III: Document and Resource Links

• [IDN Variant Issues Project – Proposed Project Plan for Next Steps

•  [PDF, 211 KB

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• Final Integrated Issues Report

•  [PDF, 2.15 MB

• ]

Section IV: Additional Information

None