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

[Rinalia Abdul Rahim]

Dear Olivier,

F2F vote in Toronto during the ALAC meeting wrap-up is fine.

Thank you.

Best regards,

Rinalia Abdul Rahim

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 On 9 Oct 2012 08:01, "Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond" <ocl at gih.com> wrote:

>  Dear Rinalia,
>
> thank you for your follow-up on this. The problem with starting a 5 day
> vote on this today is that this is the week when people are travelling to
> Toronto. They might miss the vote in their accumulated email.
> I note that the comment period closes on 18 October. Couldn't this wait
> for a F2F vote in our Thursday wrap-up?
> Kind regards,
>
> Olivier
>
> On 05/10/2012 04:07, Rinalia Abdul Rahim wrote:
>
> Dear Olivier,
>
> The drafted *ALAC Statement on the Draft IDN ccTLD String Selection
> Criteria, Requirements and Processes Policy Recommendations* (pasted
> below) has received no objections on all the ALAC and At-Large lists.  I
> have conferred with Edmon Chung and we concur that the statement is ready
> for an ALAC vote.  I am passing this matter over to you and staff for
> onward ALAC action (i.e., vote).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rinalia
>
>
>
> *ALAC Statement on the Draft IDN ccTLD String Selection Criteria,
> Requirements and Processes Policy Recommendations*
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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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> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhDhttp://www.gih.com/ocl.html
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