[vip] Educational session on existing variant practices

[Oksana Prykhodko]

Dear Vladimir,

Thank you very much for excellent idea - I can try to make short summary on
the 1st point.

Best regards,
Oksana

2011/6/30 Vladimir Shadrunov <vlad.london.uk at gmail.com>

> 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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