Overview

For more details on this proposal see "https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/arabic-lgr-proposal-18nov15-en.pdf", TF-AIDN, 2015 November 18 Version 3.4

Repertoire and references

According to Section 3.2 "Code point repertoire included", in "Proposal for Arabic Script Root Zone LGR".

Reference values ("ref" attribute) from 0 to 14 refer to Unicode Standard versions in which the corresponding code points were initially encoded. Reference values 100 and above correspond to sources justifying the inclusion of the corresponding code points. Single code point or ranges may have multiple source reference values.

Reference values ("ref" attribute") from 100 and up refer to specific sources cited for the corresponding code points in the "Proposal for Arabic Script Root Zone LGR".

The "tag" attribute for each code point or range indicates the script or scripts that the code point is used with, using Unicode script identifiers preceded by "sc:".

Variants

According to Section 4 "Final recommendation of variants for Top Level Domains (TLDs)", in "Proposal for Arabic Script Root Zone LGR".

Specific Whole Label Evaluations Rules

Based on Section 5 "Whole Label Evaluation (WLE) rules", in "Proposal for an Arabic Script Root Zone LGR".

Default Whole Label Evaluation Rules

The LGR includes a set of required default WLE rules and actions applicable in the Root Zone and defined in the MSR.

Methodology and Contributors

This XML and the proposal for Arabic Script Root Zone LGR have been developed by the Task Force for Arabic Script IDN working group (TF-AIDN), based on multiple open public consultations. For details of the TF-AIDN see: https://www.icann.org/news/blog/what-is-the-task-force-on-arabic-script-idns-tf-aidn-up-to

For more information and for methodology and contributors see "Proposal for an Arabic Script Root Zone LGR"

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