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Welcome to the IDN Variant TLD Community Home Page
This community wiki provides details and historical archive for the IDN Variant TLD program and is designed to support the IDN Variant TLD community.
For high level introduction of the program please visit the IDN Variant TLD site at ICANN.ORG
IDN Variant TLD Program made the following update announcement on the ICANN Website on 23 August 2012
IDN Variant TLDs:
http://www.icann.org/en/newsresources/announcementsidn/announcement-23aug12-en.htmvariant-tlds
The IDN Variant TLD Program has the following two updates:
1. Volunteer Team formed to assist the development of the Label Generation Ruleset Process for the Domain Name System (DNS) Root Zone
2. Updated IDN Variant TLD Program posted
IDN Variant Issues Project also called IDN Variant Program
The purpose of this program is to resolve many of the issues necessary to delegate variant TLDs. The program consists of multiple projects and phases. The first IDN Variant Issues Project explored 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 20 February 2012 and the project is now entering its next phase.
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Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) Variant TLD Program deals with the variant form of top-level domain (TLD) names in different scripts. The IDN Variant TLD program consists of multiple projects in multiple phases. The overview of the first two phases is provided at http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/variant-tlds. Details of the the two phases can be found in the following community wiki
Phase 1: Case Studies (completed) https://community.icann.org/display/VIP/Phase+1%3A+Case+Studies
Phase 2: Integrated Issues Report (completed) https://community.icann.org/display/VIP/Phase+1%3A+Case+Studies
The program is currently in its third phase with three projects in progress following the program plan posted with an announcement on http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-23aug12-en.htm
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. Details of the Phase 3 can be found in the following community wiki
Phase 3: IDN Variant TLD Program (Current Phase) https://community.icann.org/display/VIP/Phase+3%3A+IDN+Variant+TLD+Program
Next Phase and Projects:
Upon completion of the Phase 3, the program will proceed to Phase 4 with approval by ICANN board. Projects in Phase 4 are expected to focus on implementation of the Variant TLD.
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Background
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On 20 April 2011, ICANN announced the IDN Variant Issues Project to document 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 identified issues related to IDN variant TLDs for each particular script, resulting in the publication in October of six individual reports detailing the findings of each script team.
Phase II of the project 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.
On 23 December 2011, ICANN published for public comment the draft Integrated Issues Report. Following the public comment period, ICANN published a Summary and Analysis of comments received and the final Integrated Issues Report.
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Document and Resource Links
IDN Variant TLD Program Plan [PDF, 576 KB]
Final Integrated Issues Report [PDF, 2.15 MB]
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