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<div>This is the third and the most important prong of the IDN test, which will be the last one before the IDN deployment at root level. The moving-forward action should be welcomed by the long-awaiting user community. But I'm wondering why the new step is being taken without any consultation with the IDN PAC, which is supposed to supervise the whole technical development of the IDNs.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nick Ashton-Hart</b> <<a href="mailto:nick.ashton-hart@icann.org">nick.ashton-hart@icann.org</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><font face="Arial" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px"><b>ICANN Moves Forward Towards Introduction Of Internationalized Top Level Labels (IDNs) in the DNS</b></span></font>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 13px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">2 June 2007</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 13px"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">Today, ICANN posted a set of draft procedures describing how IANA will manage the insertion, administration and removal of internationalized top-level labels (as delegated A-records) in the DNS root zone. These procedures are intended to guide an evaluation plan providing for the insertion and monitoring of sample IDNs into the root zone later this year.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 13px"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">This announcement includes the draft procedure itself (</span></font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.icann.org/topics/idn/idn-iana-root-zone-procedures-02jun07.htm" target="_blank">
<font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><font color="#0000fd">IANA Root Zone Procedures for Test IDN Deployment</font></span></font></a><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">, and a draft paper (
</span></font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.icann.org/topics/idn/idn-tld-tolerance-measure-02jun07.htm" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">
<font color="#0000fd">IDN TLD Root Server Performance / Tolerance</font></span></font></a><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">) describing the negative impacts to the DNS (tolerance measure) that, if observed, would trigger an emergency revocation procedure. The revocation procedure provides for the rapid removal of IDNs from the root zone if these negative impacts rise to the level specified in the tolerance document. The Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC) is also analyzing the tolerance measure .
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<p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 13px"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">The public comment period is open until June 22, 2007 at 00:00 UTC. Following the public comment period ICANN staff will revise these documents and publish a final set of procedures that will be reviewed by ICANN Board of Directors at the ICANN Meeting in San Juan (25-29 June 2007). The procedure will be implemented according to standard processes for newly adopted or revisions to IANA services.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 13px"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">Public comments can be submitted to </span></font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:iana-idn-process@icann.org" target="_blank">
<font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><font color="#0000fd">iana-idn-process@icann.org</font></span></font></a><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"> and reviewed at </span></font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/iana-idn-process/" target="_blank">
<font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><font color="#0000fd">http://forum.icann.org/lists/iana-idn-process/</font></span></font></a><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">.</span></font>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 13px"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><b>Looking forward:</b></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 13px"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">These papers are a corner piece in ICANN's IDN Program that currently is developing an evaluation plan for insertion of a set of temporary internationalized top-level labels in the DNS. The evaluation plan will take into consideration all received advise and requests from the past several IDN workshops at ICANN meetings and other events. The evaluation plan will be posted for community review before it is finalized and implemented. The evaluation plan will be posted prior to the ICANN meeting in San Juan that takes place on 25-29 June 2007.
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