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<p class="MsoNormal">Good clarification. Rephrasing: UASG does not consider support for emojis as domain names to be part of our current scope or charter.
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are driving adoption of standards, and emojis are outside the standards.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(I actually drafted a response to SSAC095, arguing that emojis could be brought into a future update of IDNA, but that was a Microsoft perspective on a theoretical topic, orthogonal to the goals and activities of UASG.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Edmon [mailto:edmon@registry.asia] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 1, 2018 3:15 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Mark Svancarek <marksv@microsoft.com>; 'Roberto Gaetano' <roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> ua-discuss@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [UA-discuss] Emoji domain names redux<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",serif">As a slight nuance (but I think important), I think what we agreed to is that emojis are not part of the current standard for IDN/DNS. As such it is out of scope for UASG.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",serif">I do not think we support/not-support the development of emoji domains… but the right place to start that discussion may be IETF (not UASG), since the technical protocols need
to be updated first for it to become a standard before we can talk about UA readiness for it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",serif">Edmon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> UA-discuss [<a href="mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org">mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark Svancarek via UA-discuss<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 2, 2018 5:37 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Roberto Gaetano <<a href="mailto:roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com">roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org">ua-discuss@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [UA-discuss] Emoji domain names redux<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yep.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For the record, UASG does not support the use of emojis in domain names. I think we explicitly declared that during the Seattle meeting in April 2017.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Roberto Gaetano <<a href="mailto:roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com">roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 1, 2018 11:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Mark Svancarek <<a href="mailto:marksv@microsoft.com">marksv@microsoft.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org">ua-discuss@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [UA-discuss] Emoji domain names redux<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">…as if we did not have enough troubles with the serious stuff…
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 01.03.2018, at 17:46, Mark Svancarek via UA-discuss <<a href="mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org">ua-discuss@icann.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Femoji-domains-are-the-future-maybe-1823319626&data=04%7C01%7Cmarksv%40microsoft.com%7Ced2a181d6e734078b06508d57fa6cd66%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636555276751685116%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwifQ%3D%3D%7C-1&sdata=Z85DZ%2F4p6gNkeotNhimkKdajYFoGGRHPCEw12ym70sE%3D&reserved=0"><span style="color:#954F72">https://gizmodo.com/emoji-domains-are-the-future-maybe-1823319626</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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