<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Good afternoon: May I demur to the expression ASCII “root”.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ASCII is a rather limited sub set of Latin characters, currently in use. It is NOT the ‘root' of anything.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Actually, I had thought that the early IDN implementations had incorporated all accented and diacritic Latin characters into the available character sets, </div><div class="">and that it was no longer necessary to refer to transpositions or transliterations, etc., at all. </div><div class="">Except of course to the <span style="color: rgb(68, 114, 196); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">the IDN version of the name (e.g. xn--so-tom-3ta7c).</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span>Apparently I may have been wrong.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">CW</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 16 Jul 2019, at 22:05, Katrin Ohlmer | DOTZON GmbH <<a href="mailto:ohlmer@dotzon.com" class="">ohlmer@dotzon.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Dear All, dear Emily,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">the Cons of our geoTLD proposal seem to be related to the initial wording, which suggested to use transliterations. But the new proposal relates to transpositions (“</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(68, 114, 196);" class="">The transposition of accented and diacritic characters….”).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Maybe the person who worded the Cons may want to react prior to our call and redraft?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Kind regards,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Katrin<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">DOTZON GmbH - digital identities for tomorrow<br class="">Akazienstrasse 28<br class="">10823 Berlin<br class="">Deutschland - Germany<br class="">Tel: +49 30 49802722<br class="">Fax: +49 30 49802727<br class="">Mobile: +49 173 2019240<br class=""><a href="mailto:ohlmer@dotzon.consulting" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: blue;" class="">ohlmer@dotzon.consulting</span></a><br class=""><a href="http://www.dotzon.consulting/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: blue;" class="">www.dotzon.consulting</span></a><br class=""><br class=""></span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Besuchen Sie uns auf<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://de.linkedin.com/company/dotzon-gmbh" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: blue;" class="">LinkedIn</span></a>.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><br class="">DOTZON GmbH<br class="">Registergericht: Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg, HRB 118598<br class="">Geschäftsführer: Katrin Ohlmer<br class="">Sitz der Gesellschaft: Akazienstrasse 28, 10823 Berlin</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Von:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5 <<a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5-bounces@icann.org" class="">gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5-bounces@icann.org</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">Im Auftrag von<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Emily Barabas<br class=""><b class="">Gesendet:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Dienstag, 16. Juli 2019 21:17<br class=""><b class="">An:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5@icann.org" class="">gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5@icann.org</a><br class=""><b class="">Betreff:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5] Proposed Agenda - WT5 meeting - 17 July 2019 at 20:00 UTC<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Dear all,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Please note one addition in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: rgb(68, 114, 196);" class="">blue</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to the summary below for agenda item 2 reflecting additional input from Katrin.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Kind regards,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Emily<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="" class="">Emily Barabas <<a href="mailto:emily.barabas@icann.org" class="">emily.barabas@icann.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Tuesday, 16 July 2019 at 12:12<br class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>"<a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5@icann.org" class="">gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5@icann.org" class="">gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5@icann.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Proposed Agenda - WT5 meeting - 17 July 2019 at 20:00 UTC<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Dear Work Track 5 members,</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Please find below the proposed agenda for the WT5 meeting tomorrow 17 July 2019 at 20:00 UTC:</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">1. Welcome/Agenda Review/SOI Updates</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">2. Languages/Translations (see additional information below)</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">3. Additional Categories of Terms (non-AGB Terms)</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">4. Substantive review of comments in response to Initial Report questions e1-e5.</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;" class=""><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">We will reference the public comments summary document:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rsyxCEBd6ax3Rb_w1kms_E9n29XL1_lw3Yp9XQ4TeCY/edit?ts=5ce64d6d" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rsyxCEBd6ax3Rb_w1kms_E9n29XL1_lw3Yp9XQ4TeCY/edit?ts=5ce64d6d#</a>.</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">For reference, full text of comments is available at:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WKSC_pPBviCnbHxW171ZIp4CzuhQXRCV1NR2ruagrxs/edit#gid=543808477" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WKSC_pPBviCnbHxW171ZIp4CzuhQXRCV1NR2ruagrxs/edit#gid=543808477</a></span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">5. AOB</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">For agenda item 2, the leadership team has prepared the following summary of options discussed and welcomes further input to support reaching a conclusion on this issue.</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">As a reminder:</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;" class=""><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">In the 2012 Applicant Guidebook, a string was considered unavailable if it was a translation<b class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in any language</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of the following categories of country and territory names: long-form name listed in the ISO 3166-1 standard; short-form name listed in the ISO 3166-1 standard; separable component of a country name designated on the “Separable Country Names List.”</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">In the 2012 round, applicants were required to obtain letters of support or non-objection from the relevant governments or public authorities for “An application for any string that is a representation,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">in any language</b>, of the capital city name of any country or territory listed in the ISO 3166-1 standard.”</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">WT5 has discussed the following proposal as an alternative to the “in any language” standard, and two possible additions. The tables below capture pros and cons mentioned for each option.</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Proposal: translations in UN and official languages</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Wingdings;" class="">à</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> For those countries that have no official language, include “de-facto” official languages (a list would need to be identified for this)</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Wingdings;" class="">à</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> Supplement with a curative mechanism that allows for objections in the case of commonly used languages</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; color: white;" class=""> </span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Possible addition 1: transliteration into ASCII and conversion to DNS labels</span></b><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 114, 196);" class="">Proposed re-wording: The transposition of accented and diacritic characters in Latin-based scripts to their equivalent ASCII root. This would protect for example sao-tome as a DNS-Label of São Tomé along-side the IDN version of the name (xn--so-tom-3ta7c).<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td width="312" valign="top" style="width: 233.75pt; border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Pros</span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></div></td><td width="312" valign="top" style="width: 233.75pt; border-top-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Cons</span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></div></td></tr><tr class=""><td width="312" valign="top" style="width: 233.75pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">From one perspective, this allows names such as Den Haag or São Tomé to be protected with denhaag/den-hag or sao-tome/saotome.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></td><td width="312" valign="top" style="width: 233.75pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">From one perspective, ASCII is not a language but</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">an encoding of a set of (alphabetic) glyphs so transliterating into ASCII doesn't make sense.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></td></tr><tr class=""><td width="312" valign="top" style="width: 233.75pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">From one perspective, this can be a limited and clearly defined list.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></td><td width="312" valign="top" style="width: 233.75pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">From one perspective, for the same source language one can easily have different transliterated forms depending on the target language. This provision may cause confusion and uncertainty because there is a lack of standardization for transliteration.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; color: white;" class=""> </span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Possible addition 2: languages spoken by X% of people in the country/territory/capital city (to represent relevant national, regional and community languages)</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="" class=""> </span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td width="312" valign="top" style="width: 233.75pt; border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Pros</span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></div></td><td width="312" valign="top" style="width: 233.75pt; border-top-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Cons</span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></div></td></tr><tr class=""><td width="312" valign="top" style="width: 233.75pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">From one perspective, some communities and groups strongly identify with translations of names in non-official languages and this proposal would offer protection for names translated into those languages.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></td><td width="312" valign="top" style="width: 233.75pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">From one perspective, there is no standard definition of relevant national, regional and community languages and no existing list from which to draw. The term would have to be clearly defined so that it can be effectively implemented.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></td></tr><tr class=""><td width="312" valign="top" style="width: 233.75pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">From one perspective, it should be possible to create a list of relevant national, regional and community languages in implementation, especially if the group provides a definition to use. ICANN Org or the Geographic Names Panel should be able to create definitions.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></td><td width="312" valign="top" style="width: 233.75pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">From one perspective, it is unclear if there is an official, objective data source available that can be used in implementation.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; color: white;" class=""> </span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Kind regards,</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; 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