[vip] Educational session on existing variant practices

[iftakhar shah]

I will share Pakistan's experiences regarding items # 1 and 2.

Regards

Syed Iftikhar H. Shah



--- On Thu, 6/30/11, Behnam Esfahbod <behnam at esfahbod.info> wrote:

> From: Behnam Esfahbod <behnam at esfahbod.info>
> Subject: Re: [vip] Educational session on existing variant practices
> To: "Vladimir Shadrunov" <vlad.london.uk at gmail.com>
> Cc: vip at icann.org
> Date: Thursday, June 30, 2011, 2:52 PM
> Vladimir,
> 
> I would be glad to share our experience with #3.
> 
> -Behnam
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Vladimir Shadrunov
> <vlad.london.uk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > The topic of variants isn't new and the issues we are
> trying to examine here
> > in this group may have already been defined and/or
> dealt with somewhere on
> > this planet.
> >
> > We have experts from different fields here, and not
> necessarily all of us
> > are well informed about the existing practices related
> to variants. Hence an
> > idea: how about holding an educational session for the
> entire group where we
> > will review how variant issues are managed in:
> >
> > 1. Existing ICANN TLD programs (Fast Track, Applicant
> Guidebook)
> > 2. IDN ccTLD registries - variants on the top level
> > 3. TLD registries - variants on the second level
> > 4. DNS standards (some background on DNAMEs might be
> helpful)
> > 5. RFCs that deal with string similarity (4790, 3743
> for Chinese, 5992 for
> > Cyrillic, others?)
> > 6. (possibly) Trademark laws
> >
> > I'm happy to contribute to part 3 sharing the .tel
> experience with managing
> > variants. We support IDNs in 15 languages with
> different degrees of variant
> > management in Chinese, Japanese and Russian.
> >
> > Would the group support such an effort?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Vladimir Shadrunov
> >
> 
> 
> 
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