GNSO IDN Working Group
| GNSO IDN Working Group | |
|---|---|
| Status: | Closed |
| Issue Areas: | IDNs |
| Date Established: | May 18, 2006 |
| Charter: | WG Charter |
| Workspace: | [ Community Wiki] |
The GNSO IDN Working Group was chartered in November 18, 2006. The Group had the purpose to identify and specify any policy issues that should be considered by the GNSO via a policy development process that have not already been considered within the Policy Development Process on the Introduction of New gTLDs launched by the GNSO Council in December 2005 (PDP-Dec05).
Membership was open to any member of a GNSO constituency or the GNSO Council. ICANN advisory committees could appoint liaisons to the working group.
The working Group had to complete its work by the end of the ICANN meeting in Portugal on March 26-30 2007, and provide a report to the GNSO Council.[1]
Context[edit | edit source]
The GNSO IDN Working Group took into account the following:
- A President's Advisory Committee on IDNs, tasked with analyzing the challenges relating to the technical implementation of internationalized top level domains and suggestions towards their resolution.
- A Working Group of gTLD registries and ccTLD registries to create a set of technical Guidelines for the Implementation of IDNs at the second level.
- A GNSO Committee that was developing policy recommendations on new gTLDs, as part of a policy development process called PDP-Dec05. The policies developed for new gTLDs applied to new gTLDs that use the IDN standards.
- A draft issues report on IDNs produced by the ICANN Staff dated August 2, 2006, named GNSO Issues Report Policy Issues Relating to IDN at the Top-level.
- RFC4690, a document released by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), which provides a review and recommendations for Internationalized Domain Names.[1]
Work[edit | edit source]
In order to fulfill its goal, the GNSO IDN Working Group put forward the following steps:
- review the draft recommendations on new gTLDs (which include IDN gTLDs) from the GNSO's Committee on new gTLDs;
- review the current status and outcomes from the laboratory tests;
- review the ICANN staff issues report;
- review the IAB document (RFC4690);
- liaise with the ccNSO working Group to discuss any policy issues which they have identified.[1]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 ICANN GNSO: GNSO IDN Working Group Retrieved August 25, 2025
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