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Phase 1 Initial Report on the Internationalized Domain Names EPDP
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The Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) provided feedback on selected recommendations of the Phase 1 Initial Report on the Internationalized Domain Names EPDP.
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The BC thanks the IDN EPDP team for the Phase 1 Initial Report. Since the initial introduction of IDN at the 2nd level in 2000 to the delegation of IDN gTLDs in the 2012 round, the global Internet community has come a long way to complete this often delayed and much needed policy work. BC acknowledges and congratulates this significant development that helps promote linguistic diversity and overall usability of the DNS.
BC appreciates th...
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Proposal from CORE Association to add the "same entity" principle for strings which are equivalent variations without being variants technically, with respect to string similarity evaluation, in line with the ccNSO solution
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The At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) appreciates the opportunity to provide its comments on the Phase 1 Initial Report of the Expedited Policy Development Process on Internationalized Domain Names (“EPDP on IDNs” or “the EPDP”) while noting that the ALAC’s appointed participants in the EPDP have been actively engaged in the work of the EPDP.
In general, the ALAC supports the preliminary recommendations and implementation guidance propo...
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Additional Comment the IDN EPDP Phase 1 Initial Report
As part of the release of the IDN EPDP Phase 1 Initial Report, PointQuébec submitted a public comment on May 16 2023 proposing a process specific to the delegation of IDN geoTLDs for both the 2012 Round GeoTLD applicants and the new geoTLDs intending to apply in the next round.
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ICANN org appreciates the opportunity to provide comments on the Internationalized Domain Names Expedited Policy Development Process (IDNs EPDP) Team’s Phase 1 Initial Report covering topics related to the top-level IDN gTLD definition and variant management.
In providing its input, ICANN org has reviewed the Outputs (Preliminary Recommendations and Implementation Guidance) as well as the Charter Questions and the Rationale ...
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The GAC enthusiastically supports the GNSO’s development of policy recommendations that will eventually allow for the introduction of variant gTLDs at the top-level. These developments will, in themselves, serve to enhance a multilingual Internet.
GAC Members believe that the new gTLD program should create as many opportunities as possible for new scripts at the top level of the DNS – thereby providing substantial opportunities to addres...
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The report has outlined the key areas that needed to be addressed and has given outstanding recommendations.
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GeoTlds like ccTLDs have a fundamental challenge and most of the time a legal obligation to offer to local population a local UA in their own official or recognized languages and script.
The submission presents the back-ground and the rationale relating to those issues. Simple solutions, already in place for some years (fast-track IDN cctld) exists and are analzed and similar recommendations are proposed for expected IDN for 2012 GeoTLDs...
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I am currently on the Board of PointQuebec (DotQuebec). The organisation wants to provide input on some issues that were not raised in this Phase 1 initial report.
1- Some issues are related to GeoTLDS which were part of the 2012 round.
2- Other topics are related to new GeoTLDs applicants in the next round.