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<p class="title"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-3-09jun11-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-3-09jun11-en.htm</a></p><p class="title">IDN Variant TLD Case Study Update</p>
<p class="docdate">9 June 2011</p>
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<p>On April 20, 2011, ICANN announced its approach to move forward with the IDN Variant TLDs Issues Project by publishing the <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/idn-variant-tlds-delegation-20apr11-en.pdf">Final Proposal for the Project</a> [PDF, 195 KB] and the <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/idn-variant-tlds-call-for-volunteers-case-study-teams-20apr11-en.pdf">Call for Volunteers</a> [PDF, 112 KB]. This project is dedicated to identifying the issues involved in the delegation of IDN Variant TLDs.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Interested members of the community can receive updates and participate in the discussions of this work by subscribing to <a href="mailto:vip@icann.org">vip@icann.org</a> mailing list (<a href="https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/vip">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/vip</a>) or by visiting <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/VIP/">https://community.icann.org/display/VIP/</a>.</p>
<h3>Arabic Case Study</h3>
<ol><li>Sarmad Hussain (Coordinator)</li><li>Abdulaziz Al-Zoman</li><li>Behnam Esfahbod</li><li>Fahd A. Batayneh</li><li>Huda Sarfraz</li><li>Khaled Koubaa</li><li>Manal Ismail</li><li>Mohamed El-Bashir</li><li>Raed Al-Fayez</li>
<li>Siavash Shahshahani</li><li>Syed Iftikhar H. Shah</li></ol>
<h3>Chinese Case Study</h3>
<ol><li>Xiaodong Lee (Coordinator)</li><li>Chris Dillon</li><li>Hong Xue</li><li>James Seng</li><li>Jian Zhang</li><li>Joe Zhang</li><li>Jonathan Shea</li><li>Joseph Yee</li><li>June Seo</li><li>Shianyong Tseng</li><li>Wei Wang</li>
<li>Yoshiro Yoneya</li></ol>
<h3>Cyrillic Case Study</h3>
<ol><li>Alexey Sozonov (Coordinator)</li><li>Alexei Mykhaylov</li><li>Alexey Ptashniy</li><li>Daniel Kalchev</li><li>Iliya Bazlyankov</li><li>Oksana Prykhodko</li><li>Saso Dimitrijoski</li><li>Sergey Sharikov</li><li>Vladimir Shadrunov</li>
</ol>
<h3>Devanagari Case Study</h3>
<ol><li>Dr. Govind (Coordinator)</li><li>Amardeep Singh Chawla</li><li>Bal Krishna Bal</li><li>Basanta shrestha</li><li>Bhavin Turakhia</li><li>James Galvin</li><li>Jitender Kumar</li><li>K. B. Narayanan</li><li>Kalyan Kale</li>
<li>Mahesh Kulkarni</li><li>Manish Dalal</li><li>Prabhakar Kshotriya</li><li>Pramod Pandey</li><li>Raiomond Doctor</li><li>Rajiv Kumar</li><li>Satyendra Kumar Pandey</li><li>Shashi Bharadwaj</li><li>Tulika Pandey</li></ol>
<h3>Greek Case Study</h3>
<ol><li>Vaggelis Segredakis (Coordinator)</li><li>Asimina Giannopoulou</li><li>Catherine Tsapikidou</li><li>Evangelos Melagrakis</li><li>Fotia Panayiotou</li><li>George Papapavlou</li><li>Giannis Papaioannou</li><li>Panagiotis Papaspiliopoulos</li>
</ol>
<h3>Latin Case Study</h3>
<ol><li>Jothan Frakes (Coordinator)</li><li>Andrzej Bartosiewicz</li><li>Cary Karp</li><li>Eric Brown</li><li>Francisco Obispo</li><li>Giovanni Seppia</li><li>Wil Tan</li><li>Will Shorter</li></ol>
<h3>Others</h3>
<ul><li>The joint ccNSO-GNSO Working Group on IDNs (JIG) will appoint an observer for each case study.</li></ul>