<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">hi all,<div><br></div><div>this is a very interesting read for those of us who are following the IDN Variant issue. Section A “introduction, motivations and background” is an excellent read for those of us (like me) that are still a little uncertain of our understanding of this issue.</div><div><br></div><div>mikey<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">"ICANN News Alert" <<a href="mailto:communications@icann.org">communications@icann.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>ICANN News Alert -- IDN Variant TLDs – LGR Procedure Implementation – Maximal Starting Repertoire Version 1 is Now Open for Public Comment</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">March 3, 2014 at 7:18:44 PM CST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><<a href="mailto:mike@haven2.com">mike@haven2.com</a>><br></span></div><br><div>
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<h2 style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 0px;">IDN Variant TLDs – LGR Procedure Implementation – Maximal Starting Repertoire Version 1 is Now Open for Public Comment</h2><p style="margin: 15px 0px 0px;">3 March 2014</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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<td>Comment Period Opens on</td>
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<li>new gTLD</li>
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<td colspan="3"><p>As first deliverable under the "<a href="http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/variant-tlds/lgr-procedure-20mar13-en.pdf">Procedure to Develop and Maintain Label Generation Rules for the Root Zone With Respect to IDN Labels</a>" [PDF, 772 KB] (the Procedure), ICANN is releasing for public comment version 1 of the Maximal Starting Repertoire (MSR-1). The contents of MSR-1 and the detailed rationale behind its development are described in "<a href="http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/variant-tlds/msr-overview-rationale-27feb14-en.pdf">Maximal Starting Repertoire – MSR-1-Overview and Rationale</a>" [PDF, 393 KB].</p>
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