[arabic-vip] review of comments to Arabic team report

Tue Nov 29 05:18:08 UTC 2011

Dear all,
The public comments received have major concerns with respect to ZWNJ issue. This means that the ZWNJ issue is very important and risky to the people and community where the responses came from. Hence, the response to their comments should include a text that reassure them about the mitigation of the risk.
So I did not re-open the issue.
The (original) statement on the report does not reflect the team viewpoint:
        "ZWNJ is already a CONTEXT character with rules identified (though they need to be extended as proposed)."
This statements may leads to the fact that the CONTEXT rules is resolving all the issues and concerns regarding the use of ZWNJ. Which is not.
So, I added the following statement which is in line with the team's recommendations (hence, I did not list the cons or pros):
        "ZWNJ raises a number of problems to be addressed and resolved before it can be adapted at the TLDs."

The team's recommendation was: "The team recommends that ZWNJ issue should be further investigated through a comprehensive study." 

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عبدالعزيز بن حمد الزومان
Abdulaziz H. Al-Zoman

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From: arabic-vip-bounces at icann.org [arabic-vip-bounces at icann.org] on behalf of Siavash Shahshahani [shahshah at irnic.ir]
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 7:11 AM
To: arabic-vip at icann.org
Subject: Re: [arabic-vip] review of comments to Arabic team report

Dear Baher,
I have seen the email. I see no sense in re-opening something we have
already discussed when no new issues are raised.
Regards,
Siavash

On 28.11.2011 20:42, Sarmad Hussain wrote:
> Re: [arabic-vip] review of comments to Arabic team report
>
> Thank you for the comment.
>
> This particular section is discussing requirement of having
> additional
> rules for code points common/inherited properties as raised by JCK,
> and thus listing pros or cons of ZWNJ may digress from the topic.
> This has been addressed in an earlier section on ZWNJ more directly.
> Also, if we want to list the cons, we should also list the pros, to
> keep a balanced view of the issue, though not sure if we need to
> document these again, as these are already documented in detail in
> the
> report.
>
> Please respond and then we can finalize.
>
> Regards,
>  Sarmad
>
> FROM: Baher Esmat [mailto:baher.esmat at icann.org]
>  SENT: Monday, November 28, 2011 7:01 PM
>  TO: Sarmad Hussain
>  SUBJECT: Re: [arabic-vip] review of comments to Arabic team report
>
> I have not seen any reactions to Dr. Al-Zoman’s comment. Not sure if
> that means people are ok with it or they (particularly Behnam and
> Siavash) have not seen the email!
>
>  What do you think?
>
>  Best,
>  Baher
>
>  On 11/28/11 8:22 AM, "Raed Al-Fayez"  wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
>  I am attaching Dr.Al-Zoman comments since he was unable to send it
> directly to the mailing list.
>
>  With best regards,
>
>  Raed I. Al-Fayez
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>  FROM: Abdulaziz Al-Zoman
>  SENT: Monday, November 28, 2011 9:20 AM
>  TO: 'Sarmad Hussain'; 'arabic-vip at icann.org [4]
>  CC: Abdulaziz Al-Zoman
>  SUBJECT: RE: [arabic-vip] review of comments to Arabic team report
>
>  ==== Sorry if you received multiple messages … I experienced a
> problem with the email client I'm using ===
>
>  Dear Dr. Sarmad and all
>
>  Good report …
>
>  If you allow me, I would suggest the following:
>
>  At the end of the report … replace the following statement:
>  "ZWNJ is already a CONTEXT character with rules identified (though
> they need to be extended as proposed). "
>
>  With the following text:
>  "ZWNJ is already a CONTEXT character with rules identified (though
> they need to be extended as proposed). However, it raises a number of
> problems to be addressed and resolved (e.g., usability, security,
> reachebility problems, as identified in the Arabic Script Variant
> Issues Report) so that it can be adapted at the TLDs.
>
>  -----------------------------
>  عبدالعزيز بن حمد الزومان
>  Abdulaziz H. Al-Zoman
>
>  FROM: arabic-vip-bounces at icann.org [5]
> [mailto:arabic-vip-bounces at icann.org [6]] ON BEHALF OF Sarmad Hussain
>  SENT: Monday, November 28, 2011 5:24 AM
>  TO: arabic-vip at icann.org [7]
>  SUBJECT: [arabic-vip] review of comments to Arabic team report
>
>  Dear All,
>
>  Thanks to Baher, who has compiled the attached report documenting
> our
> rather long and lively discussion on the comments received (almost
> three hour call yesterday). We need to submit the response to the
> comments later today, so please take a look at them soon and let us
> know if you have any further suggestions/feedback.
>
>  Regards,
>  Sarmad
>
>
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