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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Dear All,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Here</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">are</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">more items which may be considered for further</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">discussion</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">As discussed, I am suggesting a liberal list. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">1. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Transition and Terminology</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">a. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Any (r</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">esidual</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> issues/items from IDNA2003 to IDNA2008 transition?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">b. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Glossary of terms around LGRs and variants from the IDN TLD project and other work</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">2. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Language table</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> format and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">managing</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">consistency of end-user experience</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">a. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">IDN Table format in XML</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> based on new</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">LGR</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">specifi</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">cations being developed</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">b. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">R</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ole of reference</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">second level</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">tables</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> in</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">managing</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">consistency and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">differences across TLDs</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">for</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">a predictable</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> end-user</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">experience</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">c. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Relationship between language tables and script tables? Other categories (some languages but not entire script)?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">d. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Managing consistence across levels; </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">relationship</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> of Root Zone LGR and the second level IDN tables</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">3. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Variants</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">a. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Variant states</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">(number and nomenclature)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">and state-change mechanisms</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> (e.g. blocked, allocatable, allocated, reserved, etc.)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">b. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Primary vs. secondary variants in Chinese</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">language</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">(other scripts or languages?)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">c. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Policy for activating variants</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">i. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Automatic or registrant requested allocation</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">1. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Automatic activation of variant labels at second level for Chinese language domain names</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ii. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Minimum and Maximum</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">number of allocated variants</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">/</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Ceiling value?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">iii. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Choosing which variants may be activated</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">d. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Variants at second level must</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">(</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> be allocated to the same registrant</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">? </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">e. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Implication of second level variants on TMCH</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">4. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Similarity/</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Confusability of labels</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">a. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Homographic issues within script</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">i. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">General homographic issues</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> within a script</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ii. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Scope of confusability: u</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">pper</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> lower case mapping</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">b. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Cross-script</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">homoglyphs</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">management to prevent</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">phishing possibilities– cox.com, where “cox” can be in Latin or Greek or Cyrillic</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">i. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Script mixing within a second level label</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ii. </FONT> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Script mixing across levels</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">iii. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Scope of confusability: u</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">pper</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> lower case mapping</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">iv. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Is ASCII a special case</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> for mixing</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">5. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Registration data</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">a. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Registration data for IDNs</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">b. </FONT> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Registration data</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">of variants – information regarding variant sets and variant label disposition(s)</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Regards,<BR>
Sarmad</FONT></SPAN></P>
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