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28th May 2012, 06:54 PM
From both business and policy aspects, the RySG believes a timely implementation plan for variant TLDs, as well as a Board decision about actual IDN variant delegation, are critically important to the success of the New gTLD Program. The RySG believes that the Revised Program Plan appropriately includes some community feedback and concerns (e.g. the discussion during the VIP session in Costa Rica), in particular, the prioritization of Project 2.1 regarding the implementation of variant code point repertoire, and shortening the overall program timeline. The RySG welcomes such revisions and encourages the project team to stick to the revised timeline.
The RySG also urges the project team to work closely with the technical and language communities to determine the parameters of the readiness of IDN variant delegation, and to allow some languages, if not all six languages, to implement IDN variants if such languages have no operational concern on the “readiness” issue.
http://forum.icann.org/lists/idn-variant-tld-revised-program-plan/msg00002.html
The RySG also urges the project team to work closely with the technical and language communities to determine the parameters of the readiness of IDN variant delegation, and to allow some languages, if not all six languages, to implement IDN variants if such languages have no operational concern on the “readiness” issue.
http://forum.icann.org/lists/idn-variant-tld-revised-program-plan/msg00002.html