[arabic-vip] agenda for conference call today (on Version 0.8)

[Sarmad Hussain]

Dear Siavash,

Ok.  Your suggestions are noted.

Regards,
Sarmad

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Siavash Shahshahani [mailto:shahshah at irnic.ir]
>>Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 1:34 PM
>>To: Sarmad Hussain
>>Cc: arabic-vip at icann.org
>>Subject: Re: [arabic-vip] agenda for conference call today (on Version
>>0.8)
>>
>>Dear Sarmad,
>>As I'll be joining the conference half an hour late and I haven't had a
>>chance to look at the latest document yet, let me just say a couple of
>>words on agenda items:
>>
>>
>>
>>> 1.       We have not discussed in greater detail whether we are
>>> recommending character level or position level variants.  This is an
>>> important point as it has a great impact on the possible variants
>>which
>>are
>>> generated (and also the variety of TLDs which are available).  (I am
>>> thinking of adding a note on the appendices saying that the current
>>tables
>>> are only valid for character level variants and need to be revisited
>>for
>>> positional variance)
>>>
>>
>>I think this fine-tuning for position is necessary especially in view
>>of
>>the variety of 'heh's and 'yeh's we have to deal with.
>>
>>
>>> 3.       We have the following points in the ZWNJ discussion.  We
>>need
>>to
>>> discuss whether to include them in the final version.
>>
>>I'll try to go over this section before the phone conference>
>>
>>4.       The team has spent considerable time on the section on dispute
>>> resolution.  There is a suggestion to delete this section as it is
>>not
>>> relevant.  The team (with feedback from the IDN VIP team) needs to
>>discuss
>>> and decide on this.
>>>
>>I think this is quite relevant because part of the registry contract
>>for a
>>new gTLD is accepting UDRP. Now for IDNs, it must be made clear whether
>>changes to UDRP are necessary. The questions asked in that section are
>>the
>>kinds of things ICANN should clarify. In addition, there is also the
>>matter
>>of challenges to gTLD applications based on string similarity, etc.
>>Regards,
>>Siavash