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

[Abdulaziz Al-Zoman]

Dear Andrew and all,

I totally agree with you Andrew, "There's simply no technical
distinction between ccTLDs and any other TLD". 

However, when we talk about policies then there is a different. 
Any ways, ICANN clearly understand this point and hence the 
ICANN board resolution and the assignment was clearly for:
    " the evaluation, possible delegation, allocation and operation 
      of IDN gTLDs containing variant characters, as part of the 
      new gTLD process."

Otherwise, ccNSO and the ccTLD community should be part of this process.
Clearly, the output of these study cases will benefit other groups such as 
ccNSO IDN PDP Working Group. 

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عبدالعزيز بن حمد الزومان
Abdulaziz H. Al-Zoman


> -----Original Message-----
> From: arabic-vip-bounces at icann.org [mailto:arabic-vip-bounces at icann.org]
> On Behalf Of Andrew Sullivan
> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 5:16 PM
> To: arabic-vip at icann.org
> Subject: Re: [arabic-vip] Arabic Script Issues Document (revised version)
> 
> 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
> 
> --
> Andrew Sullivan
> ajs at anvilwalrusden.com


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