closed Proposal for Thaana script Root Zone Label Generation Rules

Outcome

ICANN org appreciates the comments submitted by the community on the Proposal for Thaana script Root Zone Label Generation Rules. ICANN org received five comments on the proposal.  Three comments are in support of the proposal. One comment is in support and suggests some improvement to the proposal. One comment has no concerns with the proposal.

These comments will be submitted to the Thaana 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 Thaana Script GP. The final version of the Thaana Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules (RZ-LGR) proposal will be posted here.

What We Received Input On

Root Zone Label Generation Rules (RZ-LGRs) define a conservative mechanism to determine valid Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) top-level domains (TLDs) and their variant labels. The successful development of RZ-LGR depends on having community-based Generation Panels (GPs) develop proposals for their script(s).

The Thaana Script GP has finalized the proposal for Thaana script RZ-LGR. The proposal is being published for Public Comment before being finalized. Please review and provide your comments regarding the code point repertoire, variant code point definitions, and the rules proposed in the proposal.

Background

The GP members are representatives from each of the communities that use a particular script or writing system. The role of a GP is to identify valid characters, variant code points, and Whole Label Evaluation (WLE) rules for the given script or writing system. Each GP starts by considering the code points for the relevant script that are present in the Maximal Starting Repertoire (MSR) and develops an LGR proposal to generate top-level domain (TLD) labels for that script. Script LGR proposals are reviewed by the community through a Public Comment proceeding and then by an expert Integration Panel for approval and integration into the next version of RZ-LGR. The details of this process are defined in the LGR procedure. 

Currently, LGRs for the following 25 scripts have been completed and integrated into the fifth version of RZ-LGR: Arabic, Armenian, Bangla, Chinese (Han), Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Japanese [Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji (Han)], Kannada, Khmer, Korean [Hangul and Hanja (Han)], Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Myanmar, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, and Thai.

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