[At-Large] ALAC statement for Public Forum

[Hong Xue]

Annette,

> In the working group on IDNs we also pointed out that there is no such thing
> as translated / equivalent skripts to excisting TLDs - registries do not
> have automatic entitlement to expressions of their names to IDNs.
>

This issue has been raised at GNSO IDN WG Report. It was under the
discussion on confusing similarity--namely, whether semantic
similarity (including but not limited to meaningful similarity) should
be excluded from IDN gTLDs. I, as the ALAC Liaison, voiced very
strongly on this issue. My opinion was eventually recorded into the
Report. So, now you can see that only visual and phonetic similarity
will be considered. Thus, translation of ASCII gTLD is not even
supported at the GNSO. Is this still a very big concern in user
community?

Of course, I'm very OK to reiterate this at the Forum.

Hong



Many gtld Registries contends




On 2/15/08, Annette Muehlberg <annette.muehlberg at web.de> wrote:
> Thank you very much for putting this together - at night. It is really great
> fun to attend an ICANN Meeting when they turn off the internet access right
> after the official meeting at 18:30. Great working conditions.
>
> In the working group on IDNs we also pointed out that there is no such thing
> as translated / equivalent skripts to excisting TLDs - registries do not
> have automatic entitlement to expressions of their names to IDNs.
>
> I think that ALAC and RALOs agree on that position and it would be good if
> we could point that out in the public forum as a joint statement. Any
> objections?
>
> It would be great if you could reply within the next hour, so we can state
> this in the public forum - otherwise we could add it to the report later
> after our meeting tonight .
>
> best
> Annette
>
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