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In General

The IDN workshop in Vancouver will have a main focus on issues regarding IDNs at the top level, such as identification and assessment of IDN TLD implementation issues, and of potential risks of IDN TLD deployment to a global interoperable Internet. As such the workshop will build on the achievements of session two of the previous workshop held on 13 July 2005 in Luxembourg

Leading up to this workshop ICANN issued on 14 September 2005 a formal call for papers concerning internationalized top level domain name implementation and any other suggestions for topics and questions that should be addressed during this workshop. The received papers were posted online on 17 November 2005, and provide the basis for the agenda as presented below.

By posting these papers ICANN does not endorse their content .

Please contact Tina Dam, ICANN’s Chief gTLD Registry Liaison for general comments or questions to the agenda.

Time/Place

Wednesday November 30, 2005. The ICANN Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, at the Westin Bayshore Resort & Marina

The workshop is open to the public and will be web-cast. The idn-room@conference.icann.org room is available for remote participation. Staff will be available to pass requests for comments via the jabber room on to the open microphone during the workshop.

The IDN comment forum for discussions about the agenda topics will continue to be open throughout the Vancouver meeting:

Click here to submit comments to deployment of Internationalized TLDs

Click here to view comments regarding deployment of Internationalized TLDs

There will also be Q/A opportunities after each presentation and during the panel discussions.

Agenda

Introduction (12.30-13.00)

Session I: Internationalized Top Level Domains Approaches (13.00-16.45)

Moderator:

Cary Karp, MuseDoma

Panel Members:

Li Guanghao, Chinese Domain Name Consortium

Abdulaziz H. Al-Zoman, Arabic Domain Names Pilot Project

S. Subbiah, i-dns.net, Presentation

Pat Kane, VeriSign, Presentation

Ram Mohan, Afilias

Michael Everson, Evertype

Michel Suignard, Microsoft

15 min break

Session II: Internationalized Second Level Domain Name Implementation (17.00-18.30)

Presenters and Topics:

• Tina Dam, ICANN, Revision of IDN Guidelines, Status and Process
  
• Ram Mohan, Afilias, Revision of IDN Guideline, BCP Approach
  
• Mark Davis, Unicode Consortium, IDN Guidelines Security Input
  
• Alireza Saleh, IRNIC IDN.IR implementations
  
• Gervase Markham, Mozilla IDN Implementations
  
• Michel Suignard, Microsoft IDN Implementations

Session III: Additional IDN Community Initiatives (18.30-19.30)

• Mouhamet Diop and Michael Everson, African Steering committee
• Pankaj Agrawala, GAC IDN Working Group, Presentation
• Andrzej Bartosiewicz, ITU IDN
• Yoav Keren, Domain The Net Technologies
• Bruce Tonkin, GNSO Council, IDN Policy Development Process
• David Maher, PIR, .org IDN Plans

Background Material

Participants in this IDN Workshop may wish review the material presented in earlier workshops, as the same comprehensive level of introduction to IDN issues will not be provided in the Vancouver meeting.

Kuala Lumpur workshop (8 July 2004)

• Copies of the presentations provided in the workshop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which included a 4-hour tutorial that covered basic issues to provide a better understanding of IDNs - can be viewed here: http://www.icann.org/meetings/kualalumpur/idn-workshop-08jul04.htm
• Video archives of the Kuala Lumpur presentations can be viewed here: http://www.icann.org/meetings/kualalumpur/video.htm

Cape Town Workshop (1 December 2004)

• Copies of the presentations provided in the IDN workshop in Cape Town, South Africa which included discussions on IDN developments in the African region and IDN Application Development and Policy Issues and Processes – can be viewed here: http://icann.org/meetings/capetown/idn-workshop-01dec04.htm
• Video archives of the Cape Town presentations can be viewed here: http://icann.org/meetings/capetown/video.htm
• Public Forum IDN Status Update Presentation

Luxembourg Workshop (13 July 2005)

• The workshop agenda and copies of workshop presentations that was focused on the topics of revision of the IDN Guidelines and the implementation issues and opportunities for IDNs at the top level, can be found here: http://icann.org/meetings/luxembourg/idn-workshop-13jul05.htm
• Video archives are available here: http://media1.icann.org/ramgen/broadcast/luxembourg.rm
• Real-time captioning is available here: http://icann.org/meetings/luxembourg/captioning-idn-workshop-13jul05.htm