Dear Vladimir,<br><br>Thank you very much for excellent idea - I can try to make short summary on the 1st point.<br><br>Best regards,<br>Oksana<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/6/30 Vladimir Shadrunov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="http://vlad.london.uk">vlad.london.uk</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">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. <br>
<br>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:<br>
<br>1. Existing ICANN TLD programs (Fast Track, Applicant Guidebook)<br>2. IDN ccTLD registries - variants on the top level<br>3. TLD registries - variants on the second level<br>4. DNS standards (some background on DNAMEs might be helpful)<br>
5. RFCs that deal with string similarity (4790, 3743 for Chinese, 5992 for Cyrillic, others?)<br>6. (possibly) Trademark laws<br><br>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.<br>
<br>Would the group support such an effort? <br><br>Best regards,<br><font color="#888888">Vladimir Shadrunov<br>
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