[APAC-Discuss] [IDN-WG] [At-Large] Draft Recommendations Overall Policy for the Selection of IDN ccTLD Strings PC

Cheryl Langdon-Orr langdonorr at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 03:37:38 UTC 2012


Works for me can the ALAC consider it posted haste I wonder...
On Sep 28, 2012 1:26 PM, "Rinalia Abdul Rahim" <rinalia.abdulrahim at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
>
> Please find below a draft statement on the IDNccTLD String selection.  The
> statement is meant to be short, commends the work and addresses the
> variants issue.  Comments for fine tuning or addressing gaps are welcome.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Rinalia
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> *DRAFT *
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> *ALAC Statement on the Draft IDN ccTLD String Selection Criteria,
> Requirements and Processes Policy Recommendations*
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> The At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) commends the International Domain
> Names (IDN) country code Policy Development Process Working Group 1 for the
> comprehensiveness of its draft policy recommendations on the IDN ccTLD
> String Selection Criteria, Requirements and Processes for territories
> listed in the ISO 3166-1 list.  We note that the recommendations are based
> on the previous work of the IDNC Working Group and we are pleased to see
> that the recommendations reflect the learning drawn from the implementation
> of the IDNccTLD Fast Track Process over the past few years.
>
>
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> We wish to reiterate the significance and importance of IDNs, including IDN
> Top Level Domains (TLDs) at both the generic and country code levels.  We
> believe that IDNs are crucial for enhancing diversity and multilingualism
> on the Internet.
>
>
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> We observe that the draft recommendations do not address the issue of
> variant TLDs and instead contain a placeholder in Section J, which points
> out that issues pertaining to the management of such TLDs are still being
> discussed in the ICANN community and will be added later.
>
>
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> We believe that the draft recommendations should indicate that the issue of
> variants is urgent and need to be addressed in a timely manner.
>  Concurrently,
> the draft recommendations should also affirm that the outcomes of the
> variants discussion pertaining to the Label Generation Ruleset (LGR) for
> the Root Zone would be binding and applicable to all TLDs (including
> ccTLDs), given that the overarching principle of the LGR process is the
> security and stability of the Root Zone, which is shared by all Internet
> users.
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>
>
> END
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