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closed Proposal for Latin Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules

CategoryTechnical
RequestersICANN org

Outcome

ICANN org is grateful for the feedback from the community and appreciates the comments submitted on the Proposal for Latin Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules.

The nine comments received includes three comments in support, one comment with no objection, and five comments requesting further consideration on code point repertoire and variant code point definitions. These comments are being submitted to the Latin Script Generation Panel (GP) for their consideration and incorporation as needed. As per the LGR Procedure, the Integration Panel will also review these comments as they review the updated proposal from the Latin GP. The final version of the Latin Script LGR proposal for the root zone will be posted on the Root Zone Label Generation Rules (RZ-LGR) proposals page.

What We Received Input On

Root Zone Label Generation Rules (RZ-LGR) are developed to define a conservative mechanism to determine valid Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) top-level domains (TLDs) and their variant labels. The successful development of Label Generation Rules depends on having community-based Generation Panels for each script that will be used in the root zone.

The Latin Script GP has finalized the proposal for Latin Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules (Latin Script RZ-LGR). The proposal is being published for Public Comment before being finalized and submitted to the Integration Panel for integration into the Label Generation Rules for the Root Zone (RZ-LGR).

Please review and provide your input regarding the code point repertoire, variant definitions, and the rules proposed in the proposal.

Proposals For Your Input
Latin Script RZ-LGR Appendices
Latin Script RZ-LGR Proposal (XML)
Latin Script RZ-LGR Proposal (HTML)
Latin Script RZ-LGR Supporting Document

Background

Root Zone Label Generation Rules (RZ-LGR) are developed to define a conservative mechanism to determine valid Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) top-level domains (TLDs) and their variant labels.

The successful development of Label Generation Rules depends on having community-based Generation Panels for each script that will be used in the root zone. Generation Panel members are representatives from each of the communities that use a particular script or writing system and their role is to identify the valid characters, variants, and Whole Label Evaluation (WLE) rules for the given script or writing system. Each Generation Panel starts by considering the code points for the relevant script that are present in the Maximal Starting Repertoire (MSR) and based on these, develops a Label Generation Rules proposal to be used to generate TLD labels for that script. In doing so, they may need to coordinate efforts with other Generation Panels whenever their respective scripts are closely related. These proposals are then reviewed by the community through a Public Comment proceeding and then by an expert Integration Panel for approval and integration into the Label Generation Rules for the Root Zone (RZ-LGR). The details are defined in the LGR procedure.

Currently, there are multiple script communities that have formed Generation Panels and are actively working towards finalizing Label Generation Rules (LGRs) for the root zone including Japanese and Myanmar scripts. LGRs for the following 18 scripts have already been completed and integrated: Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Georgian, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Kannada, Khmer, Lao, Malayalam, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, and Thai. In addition, Armenian, Cyrillic, Greek, and Korean scripts have also been completed and are waiting to be integrated.