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Six Scripts Integrated into the Second Version of Root Zone Label Generation Rules (RZ-LGR-2)

6 June 2017

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today opened public comment on the second version of Root Zone Label Generation Rules (RZ-LGR-2) integrating six scripts: Arabic, Ethiopic, Georgian, Khmer, Lao and Thai.

The Root Zone LGR will be used to determine valid top-level Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) labels and their variant labels, if any. Work is underway by the community-based Generation Panels[icann.org] on proposals for additional scripts to be integrated in the future versions of the Root Zone LGR. These include Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Latin and Neo-Brahmi panels.

Generation Panels for more scripts, including Hebrew, Myanmar, Sinhala, Tibetan and Thaana are actively being solicited as per the Call for Generation Panels[icann.org]. Individuals with deep experience or interest in these scripts are encouraged to volunteer and help enable a multilingual Internet.

For further information on the IDN Program at ICANN, please visit www.icann.org/idn[icann.org]. To start a new Generation Panel or to get involved in an existing one, please email at IDNProgram@icann.org.