[arabic-vip] Summary of today call

[Dr.Sarmad Hussain]

Yes, registry operations, including DNSSEC, IPv6 and any other relevant
issues.  I may not have communicated that clearly in the call thus the
confusion.

Thanks Fahd for clarifying it.

regards,
Sarmad


On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Fahd Batayneh
<Fahd.Batayneh at nitc.gov.jo>wrote:

> Thank you Baher for the notes.****
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> One comment though (I stand to be corrected if I got it wrong). I think it
> was agreed that I will be working on “*Registry Operations and Variants*”
> rather than “*DNSSec*”.****
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> All,
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> Here is what I captured from today’s call.
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> Regards,
> Baher
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> Monday 12 July, 2011 – 07:00-08:30 UTC
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> Present on the call:
> Sarmad Hussein, Iftikhar Shah, Manal Ismail, Huda Sarfraz, Raed Al-Fayez,
> Fahd Batayneh, Abdulaziz Alzoman
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> ICANN staff/consultants: Baher Esmat, Andrew Sullivan
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> Team continued discussion of last week on issues around variants. Team
> discussed the sub-category A1.2.1.3 (re: 'hamza' and 'madda') in the
> document sent by Manal. There was a discussion on the character 'alef' with
> and without 'madda' in different Arabic languages.
>
> It was noted that whenever a new version of UNICODE comes along, there may
> be new code points added which may have an implication on variants under a
> specific script. It was also noted that policy at the Registry level as to
> what code points to allow is another element to consider in this regard.
>
> Moving from character level issues to label level issues the discussion
> moved toward Registry operation where the (.sa) Registry shared with the
> team how they handle variants at the second level. It was mentioned that if
> variants are to be allowed at the top-level, it would be recommended for the
> Registry to minimize the number of variant TLDs as much as possible because
> managing variant TLDs is very difficult. This raises the question of how to
> limit the number of variants and where the choice is. There seemed to be a
> distinction between 2 categories of variants (A1.1 vs A1.2 and A1.3 as per
> Manal's doc), where some variants may be needed to be delegated while others
> may be needed to be blocked.
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> It was also mentioned that IETF is working on a technical solution to
> provide bundles as part of the DNS. Andrew made a clear statement that
> people must not wait for IETF to solve the problem. He added that form IETF
> perspective this fundamentally is a policy problem that needs to be dealt
> with at the Registry level, and while IETF may one day come up with some
> technology to deal with the problem, there is yet no magic solution. Andrew
> also talked about DNAME and highlighted few technical challenges for system
> admins to be able to manage variants.
>
> Team agreed that they would work on the rest of the agenda items via email.
> Fahd, Raed and Dr. Alzoman would look into DNSSEC. Manal and Iftikhar would
> look into UDRP.
>
> Team agreed to fix the call date and time to Tuesday 07:00AM UTC. ****
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