On April 20, 2011, ICANN announced its approach to move forward with the IDN Variant TLDs Issues Project by publishing the Final Proposal for the Project [PDF, 195 KB] and the Call for Volunteers [PDF, 112 KB]. This project is dedicated to identifying the issues involved in the delegation of IDN Variant TLDs.
Today, we are pleased to announce the formation of six case study teams, comprising a total of 66 experts from 29 countries and territories. In addition, six organizations are in the process of being selected to be local hosts for each of the case studies. A local host organization will provide meeting and other facilities to support the case studies work. A decision and announcement will follow shortly.
Individual members are listed at the end of this announcement and they offer expertise in the following areas: DNS, IDNA, linguistics, security & scalability, policy, registry/registrar operations, and community representatives.
On Saturday, 18 June 2011, all-day project team meetings are being planned in Singapore at which the case study teams will meet together in plenary sessions and in individual breakout working sessions.
Interested members of the community can receive updates and participate in the discussions of this work by subscribing to vip@icann.org mailing list (https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/vip) or by visiting https://community.icann.org/display/VIP/.
Arabic Case Study
- Sarmad Hussain (Coordinator)
- Abdulaziz Al-Zoman
- Behnam Esfahbod
- Fahd A. Batayneh
- Huda Sarfraz
- Khaled Koubaa
- Manal Ismail
- Mohamed El-Bashir
- Raed Al-Fayez
- Siavash Shahshahani
- Syed Iftikhar H. Shah
Chinese Case Study
- Xiaodong Lee (Coordinator)
- Chris Dillon
- Hong Xue
- James Seng
- Jian Zhang
- Joe Zhang
- Jonathan Shea
- Joseph Yee
- June Seo
- Shianyong Tseng
- Wei Wang
- Yoshiro Yoneya
Cyrillic Case Study
- Alexey Sozonov (Coordinator)
- Alexei Mykhaylov
- Alexey Ptashniy
- Daniel Kalchev
- Iliya Bazlyankov
- Oksana Prykhodko
- Saso Dimitrijoski
- Sergey Sharikov
- Vladimir Shadrunov
Devanagari Case Study
- Dr. Govind (Coordinator)
- Amardeep Singh Chawla
- Bal Krishna Bal
- Basanta shrestha
- Bhavin Turakhia
- James Galvin
- Jitender Kumar
- K. B. Narayanan
- Kalyan Kale
- Mahesh Kulkarni
- Manish Dalal
- Prabhakar Kshotriya
- Pramod Pandey
- Raiomond Doctor
- Rajiv Kumar
- Satyendra Kumar Pandey
- Shashi Bharadwaj
- Tulika Pandey
Greek Case Study
- Vaggelis Segredakis (Coordinator)
- Asimina Giannopoulou
- Catherine Tsapikidou
- Evangelos Melagrakis
- Fotia Panayiotou
- George Papapavlou
- Giannis Papaioannou
- Panagiotis Papaspiliopoulos
Latin Case Study
- Jothan Frakes (Coordinator)
- Andrzej Bartosiewicz
- Cary Karp
- Eric Brown
- Francisco Obispo
- Giovanni Seppia
- Wil Tan
- Will Shorter
Others
- The joint ccNSO-GNSO Working Group on IDNs (JIG) will appoint an observer for each case study.