[UA-discuss] Recommendations for Managing the IDN Variant TLDs - Public Comment

[Sarmad Hussain]

Dear UASG members,

 

The recommendations for managing IDN variant labels for the top-level
domains (TLDs) have been developed by the ICANN organization.  The relevant
analysis along with these proposed recommendations have been posted for
public comment
<https://www.icann.org/public-comments/managing-idn-variant-tlds-2018-07-25-
en> .

 

Please consider providing feedback on the analysis and the recommendations
published.  UASG may also consider exploring if there are any implications
of delegating IDN variant TLDs on the universal acceptance of domain names.
We look forward to your input.

 

Regards,
Sarmad

 


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Recommendations for Managing IDN Variant Top-Level Domains 


25 July 2018

 


Open Date:

25 July 2018

Close Date:

3 September 2018


Originating Organization:

Global Domains Division


Categories/Tags:

Top-Level Domains


Brief Overview:

Recommendations for managing Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) variant
labels for top level domains (TLDs) have been developed by ICANN
organization. The relevant materials along with these proposed
recommendations are being published to seek community feedback.

The community has identified a need for IDN variant TLDs; however, the ICANN
Board resolved on 25 September 2010 that "no variants of gTLDs will be
delegated ... until appropriate variant management solutions are developed."

Subsequent work by ICANN organization and the community led to the
identification of two issues: (i) there is no accepted definition for
variant TLDs, and (ii) there is no 'variant management' mechanism for TLDs.

For the first issue, the Root Zone Label Generation Rules (RZ-LGR) Procedure
was developed with the support of the community and adopted by the ICANN
Board on 11 April 2013 for implementation. The Procedure has been
implemented and RZ-LGR has been developed for six scripts, and other scripts
are being added as their proposals are finalized by the relevant script
communities.

For the second issue, ICANN organization has undertaken a detailed
examination to propose a set of recommendations for variant management
mechanisms for TLDs, which will be finalized based on the community input.
The finalized recommendations will be presented to the ICANN Board,
anticipated in March 2019. At that time, the ICANN Board will be requested
to consider these recommendations to allow for implementing IDN variant
TLDs.


Link:

https://www.icann.org/public-comments/managing-idn-variant-tlds-2018-07-25-e
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