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<h2>News Alert</h2>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2015-03-19-en">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2015-03-19-en</a></p>
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<h2 style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 0px;">Request for Proposal for LGR Tool Set</h2>
<p style="margin: 15px 0px 0px 0px;">19 March 2015</p>
<p>The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") is seeking a provider to design and develop software for creating, using and managing Label Generation Rulesets (LGRs) based on a new machine readable format based on the formal representation
available at <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-davies-idntables">https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-davies-idntables</a>.</p>
<p>ICANN anticipates a contract to be signed and work to begin no later than May 5<sup>th</sup> 2015.</p>
<p>ICANN hosts a repository of language and script specific data through its IANA department which is used by registries to generate labels, generally known as
<a href="https://www.iana.org/domains/idn-tables">IDN tables</a> and now being referred to as Label Generation Rulesets (LGRs). A new machine readable XML-based format is currently being designed to organize and represent the LGR data. This format will also
be used for the LGR for the Root Zone, for validating prospective top-level domain (TLD) labels and determining the variants of existing and prospective labels. The Root Zone LGR is currently being developed with the collaboration of various script communities
(organized as script based Generation Panels).</p>
<p>ICANN intends to release this software with open source license for community use and also utilize it for internal operations.</p>
<p>For additional information and instructions for submitting responses please <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rfp-lgr-toolset-19mar15-en.zip">
click here</a> [ZIP, 994 KB].</p>
<p>Proposals should be submitted to <a href="mailto:LGRToolset-rfp@icann.org">LGRToolset-rfp@icann.org</a> by 23:59 UTC on 5 April 2015.</p>
<p><em>RFP timeline at a glance:</em></p>
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<td><em>RFP released to participants on</em></td>
<td><em>19 March 2015</em></td>
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<td><em>Participants provide their intent to bid</em></td>
<td><strong><em>25 March 2015 by 23:59 UTC</em></strong></td>
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<td><em>Participants submit any questions to ICANN</em></td>
<td><strong><em>25 March 2015 by 23:59 UTC</em></strong></td>
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<td><em>ICANN responds to participant questions by</em></td>
<td><em>31 March 2015</em></td>
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<td><em>Participant RFP proposals due</em></td>
<td><strong><em>5 April 2015 by 23:59 UTC</em></strong></td>
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<td><em>Preliminary evaluation of responses</em></td>
<td><em>Week of April 6<sup>th</sup></em></td>
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<td><em>Target for participant presentations (finalists)</em></td>
<td><em>Week of April 13<sup>th</sup></em></td>
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<td><em>Target for Final evaluations and selection of Provider (includes contracting and award to participant)</em></td>
<td><em>Weeks of April 20<sup>th</sup> & 27<sup>th</sup></em></td>
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<td><em>Estimated start of implementation</em></td>
<td><em>5 May 2015</em></td>
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