<div dir="ltr"><div>All,<br><br>CPWG Member Bill Jouris has identified some issues to be considered for At-Large intervention and an ALAC statement to the public comment process

closing on 15 Oct 2020. (See: 

<a href="https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/147849745/Ar%20Large%20Comments%20on%20SLDs.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1600107287000&api=v2">Presentation by Bill Jouris</a>)  <br><br>Your input is sought given that this involves IDNs and possible risk of end-user confusion in domain names at the second level. To comment, please go to: <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/alacpolicydev/At-Large+Workspace%3A+Reference+Label+Generation+Rulesets+%28LGRs%29+for+the+Second+Level">CPWG Workspace</a>.<br><br>Kind regards,<br>Justine</div><div><br><b><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/APRALO/APRALO+Policy+Forum">APRALO Policy Forum</a></b><br><br>******</div><div><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px"><strong><a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/reference-lgrs-second-level-2020-08-24-en" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background:rgb(255,171,0);border:1px solid rgb(255,171,0);border-radius:3px;color:rgb(37,56,88);display:inline-block;font-size:11px;line-height:10.89px;margin:0px;padding:3px 5px 2px;text-align:center;text-transform:uppercase;min-width:76px">COMMENT</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">Call for Public Comments to the Reference Label Generation Rulesets (LGRs) for the Second Level (24 Aug - 15 Oct 2020)</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"> </span></strong></p><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px"><strong><em>Purpose:</em></strong> To improve the transparency and consistency of the Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) table review process to facilitate the registry operations of new gTLDs, ICANN has developed additional reference IDN tables in machine-readable format, called reference Label Generation Rulesets (LGRs) for the second level. The reference IDN tables are based on the <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/lgr-guidelines-second-level-27may20-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Guidelines for Developing Reference Label Generation Rules (LGRs)</a>, which were finalized after <a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/lgr-second-level-2-2020-03-30-en" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">community review</a>. These reference LGRs will be used in reviewing IDN tables submitted by the gTLD registries, e.g. through the Registry Service Evaluation Policy (RSEP) process.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px"><strong><em>Current Status:</em></strong> ICANN org had published <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/second-level-lgr-2015-06-21-en" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">reference second-level LGRs</a> for multiple languages. Additional reference LGRs have been developed based on the detailed analysis and finalized solutions by the script community for the <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/lgr-proposals-2015-12-01-en" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Root Zone Label Generation Rules (RZ-LGRs)</a>. Seventeen (17) LGRs are being released for Public Comment including Bangla, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Georgian, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Khmer, Lao, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu script-based LGRs, and Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, and Thai language-based LGRs.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px"><strong><em>Next Steps:</em></strong> Based on the community input, these reference LGRs will be finalized and published for the use of gTLD registry operators to consult while they design their IDN tables.  These reference LGRs will also be used in reviewing the IDN tables submitted by the gTLD registries.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px"><u><strong><em>Particular Focus for APRALO</em></strong></u>: Possible risk of confusion to individual end-users through use of visually similar multi-lingual scripts in domain names at the second level</p><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px"><em><strong>At-Large Resources: </strong></em><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/147849745/Ar%20Large%20Comments%20on%20SLDs.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1600107287000&api=v2" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Presentation by Bill Jouris</a></span></p><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px"><strong><em>To Comment, go to</em></strong>: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/alacpolicydev/At-Large+Workspace%3A+Reference+Label+Generation+Rulesets+%28LGRs%29+for+the+Second+Level" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">CPWG Workspace<br clear="all"></a></span></p><div></div><br></div><div><br></div></div>