[arabic-vip] Arabic Script Issues Document (revised version)

[Andrew Sullivan]

Dear colleagues,

On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 06:29:47AM +0000, Abdulaziz Al-Zoman wrote:
> 
> -         The team's assignment is for the new gTLD … we should not talk about ccTLDs and give the hints that the report should or may be applied on the ccTLDs. (Regardless of that fact that some of us my come or work for ccTLDs).
> 

Unfortuately, it is impossible for the purposes of root zone
registration policy to distinguish between ccTLDs and gTLDs.  A DNS
lookup doesn't know whether the lookup is for a ccTLD or a gTLD, and
they're all contained in the same (root) zone.  So, if policy gets
made for gTLDs, it's going to be for ccTLDs too, regardless of whether
we would like that to be true.  There's simply no technical
distinction between ccTLDs and any other TLD.

Best regards,

Andrew

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Andrew Sullivan
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