[ALAC-Announce] ICANN News Alert -- Call for Generation Panels to Develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules

[At-Large Staff]

ICANN News Alert 
 <http://www.icann.org/>
News Alert
http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-11jul13-en.htm

Call for Generation Panels to Develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules
11 July 2013

Today, ICANN takes the next step in the implementation of the IDN Root Zone
Label Generation Rules Procedure by publishing the Call for Generation
Panels to develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules
<http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/variant-tlds/call-for-panels-lgr-11ju
l13-en.pdf>  [PDF, 150 KB].

The IDN Root Zone LGR project will undertake work to develop the rules that
identify the valid repertoire of code points for IDN TLDs, as well as the
rules for identifying and possibly delegating any IDN variant TLDs. The work
is carried out as specified in the Procedure to Develop and Maintain the
Label Generation Rules for the Root Zone in Respect of IDNA Labels
<http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/variant-tlds/draft-lgr-procedure-20ma
r13-en.pdf>  [PDF, 1.39 MB] and involves an Integration Panel, (to be
staffed by paid experts), a set of Advisors to all Panels (formed of paid
consultants, ICANN staff, or volunteers), and a set of Generation Panels
(consisting of volunteers). This call concerns the latter.

Successful development of the IDN Root Zone LGR depends on having Generation
Panels for each script represented in the Root Zone. Generation Panels are
expected to represent their communities and to have members with the
appropriate skills to perform the substantive work of creating the LGR for
the script used by their community.

Each Generation Panel will be comprised of a chair and a number of community
representatives, as well as members with technical expertise in the
following areas: DNS, IDNA, Unicode, and linguistics of the relevant script.
The Call for Generation Panels to develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules
<http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/variant-tlds/call-for-panels-lgr-11ju
l13-en.pdf>  [PDF, 150 KB] describes the details of expertise needed, as
well as the details of the selection process. Interested volunteers are
invited to submit their CV and an expression of interest statement
demonstrating how they meet the qualifications to serve as members or
chairs. Communities that already have a working group dealing with IDN and
Variant issues are solicited to contact ICANN if interested in forming a
Generation Panel, partially or entirely based on such an existing working
group.

Initially, Generation Panel formation is expected to cover the following
scripts, already represented in existing applications from both New gTLD and
IDN ccTLD Programs: Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Cyrillic,
Greek, Latin, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Sinhala, Tamil,
Telugu, Thai and Georgian. However, the call will remain open for those
interested in serving on Generation Panels for other scripts.

Expressions of interest can be sent to idnvarianttlds at icann.org.