[ALAC] cNSO-SSAC issue

[Alan Greenberg]

I think the issue is not a technical problem with the technical root 
zone, but that increasingly SSAC is considering the potential for 
user confusion. From a user perspective, that is a good thing. If 
they had done so earlier in the gTLD process, we might be in a much 
better position there than we are now. But yes, that is a change.

Perhaps you can elaborate on how the potential problems "can be 
mitigated by the registry or registrars at the local level". That may 
help ensure that we are all talking about the same thing and perhaps 
provide a path forward.

Alan

At 28/02/2017 04:01 PM, Andrei Kolesnikov wrote:
>Thank you Maureen, good report.
>
>  The origin of this story goes years back when I was representing 
> ccTLD with (still world largest) IDN obtained by Fast Track. I know 
> how important it is for the local market, government and end users 
> to have an ability to use local script in domain names. The process 
> of similarity check was in place without expectations to see a real 
> problematic cases anyday soon. But it happened. The similar process 
> in new gTLD project was accurately timelin'ed and works well (until 
> the real confusion case at least). I'd like to mention RFC6912 
> paragraph 6 one more time. The visually confusing labels are 
> potential problem for a registry, not to a root zone in general. 
> With IDN ccTLD registry procedures (particularly for mentioned 
> Greek and Cyrillic scripts) if any domain name confusion case 
> becomes real, it can be mitigated by the registry or registrars at 
> the local level. I recommend to support ccNSO statement with all 
> balances and checks they've included into the document.
>
>best regards, --andrei
>
>2017-02-28 13:49 GMT+03:00 Maureen Hilyard 
><<mailto:maureen.hilyard at gmail.com>maureen.hilyard at gmail.com>:
>Background notes for your information - for the ALAC meeting
>
>Maureen
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