Name: String Evaluations in the Next Round: DNS Stability, String Similarity, and IDN Variant Justification
Start: 2025-10-28T10:30:00+0000
End: 2025-10-28T12:00:00+0000

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String Evaluations in the Next Round: DNS Stability, String Similarity, and IDN Variant Justification

Tuesday October 28, 2025 10:30 - 12:00 GMT

Liffey Hall 2 - Level 1

10:30 UTC, 28 October 2025
10:30 UTC, 28 October 2025
Liffey Hall 2 - Level 1
ID# 17251

Session Details
This session will include an update on the DNS Stability, String Similarity and IDN Variant Justification evaluations as part of the New gTLD Program: Next Round. The session will also be an opportunity to provide input on the details related to these evaluations.

Session Leader: Sarmad Hussain
Staff Facilitator: Pitinan Koo

Session Recordings
Zoom Archive
English audio archive

Facilitators

Pitinan Kooarmornpatana.

IDN Program, Director, ICANN Org

Sarmad Hussain

Senior Director, IDN and UA Programs, ICANN Org

Sarmad Hussain is with ICANN’s Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) and Universal Acceptance (UA) Programs. Earlier, Sarmad was a professor of Computer Science and held the IDRC Chair position in Multilingual Computing. His research has focused on developing computing solutions... Read More →

NxR Evaluation DNS Stability String Sim Variant Justification pdf

TRANSC I84DUB Tue28Oct2025 String Evaluations in the Next Round en pdf

Tuesday October 28, 2025 10:30 - 12:00 GMT
Liffey Hall 2 - Level 1 ICANN 84 - Annual General Meeting - Dublin

Security / Technical, Public Session