[lac-discuss-en] Call For Volunteers: Join A Generation Panel, Speak Up for Your Language

[staff at atlarge.icann.org]

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 Subject: Call For Volunteers: Join A Generation Panel, Speak Up for Your Language 
 From: staff at atlarge.icann.org

 Dear All, 


 Satish Babu, Co-Chair of the At-Large Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) Policy Working Group, in collaboration With Sarmad Hussain, Senior Manager of the ICANN IDN Program, you Requested a call for volunteers in the Generation Panel. Kindly see the details below. 


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 Speak up for your Language! Join a Panel Today 


 In the past, labels in the Internet's Root Zone Could Contain only ASCII characters. The rules for creating new top-level domain labels Were simple: labels must (i) be Composed only of letters in the alphabet Inglés, and (ii) consist of two to 63 characters. All of that is changing now. The future holds a multilingual Internet, WHERE a user from anywhere across the world can navigate Entirely in his or her native language. 


 Be a part de este historic change!ICANN is calling for volunteers to serve on one of several panels That will define the rules for generating new top-level domain labels for the script or writing systems for Their community. 


 Join a Generation Panel today by emailing idntlds at icann.org. Make sure to tell us the language you speak and the script or writing system you want to Get Involved comfortable with. Please help inform and motivate others to join as well. 


 The goal of These panels is to support the use of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) by Determining what is a valid top-level domain label in each script or writing system. This Involves answering three questions: (i) Which subset of characters from the various scripts can be Used to form a label *, (ii) Which of These characters (if any) May be Considered confusable variants or by end users, and (iii ) what additional constraints are in Original ** on labels? 


 As there is a single Root Zone, all Such label generation rules for all the scripts must be merged into a single reference, Which is called the Label Generation Rule-set (LGR). The ICANN community has Established a procedure <  https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/lgr-procedure-20mar13-en.pdf> 


  One.The basis is a subset of Unicode code points Which May be Appropriate for the Root Zone and called the Maximal Starting Repertoire (MSR). 
  2. Representing Communities various scripts (eg, Arabic, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Chinese, Latin, Thai, etc.) are invited to organize into Generation Panels to start from the MSR and propose the label generation rules (Which contains the three types of rules defined above) for Their respective scripts. 
  3. The script-based Proposals developed by the Communities are reviewed by a panel of experts called the Integration Panel. Proposals That meet the criteria in the procedure <  https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/lgr-procedure-20mar13-en.pdf> 


 For Step 1, the ICANN Recently released Maximal Starting Repertoire (MSR-1) <  https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-06-20-en>, 


 Step two is now underway; ICANN needs your help in Developing Proposals to extend the Root Zone LGR to cover each of These scripts. There is a role for everyone: General script as well as community representation Volunteers With knowledge of scripts, linguistics, Unicode IDNA / DNS or policy. 


 Volunteering is easy; just send an email to idntlds at icann.org. Generation panel to join today. Help support ICANN top-level domain names in your language!


 Note: 
 * Code Appropriate points for letters and labels must be Widespread Should be in modern use. 
 ** For example, a label can not be FORMED Entirely by combine combining marks and must Contain at Least two letters 


 Regards, 


 Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine and Terri Agnew 
 ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC 
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