<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear All</div><div>I think another very important issue also is the contention rules in IDN</div><div>such as Arabic . Not 100% sure if this belongs to this group . there is a serious concern regarding the answer to the question :</div><div><br></div><div>will icann allow "hotel" "hotels" and thehotel and myhotel to be applied for and operated as separate TLDs.</div><div><br></div><div>I am prepared to spend time with the right subgroup to develop suggested rules particularly when this is not a trivial issue in Arabic...there could be 10 or more strings that are confusingly similar in Arabic with confusingly similar meaning etc .</div><div><br></div><div>This might belong to the language rather than a guidelines group.</div><div><br></div><div>Please advise ?</div><div>wael</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Sarmad Hussain via Idngwg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:idngwg@icann.org" target="_blank">idngwg@icann.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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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– <a href="http://cox.com" target="_blank">cox.com</a>, 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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