Dear Edmon, Many thanks for promptly drafting the document. I've some quick comments for your reference. *3. The issue of visual similarity of IDN TLDs is not a good measurement of confusing similarity. The new gTLD process should avoid the repeating of such mistake.* Could you kindly elaborate this? Do you believe measurement of confusing similarity should be extended to aural or meaning? *2. The implementation of IDN Variant TLDs at the root for Chinese IDN TLDs has proven to be successful. The same implementation, more specifically, concurrent NS delegations for the Primary and Preferred IDN Variant TLD strings, is the appropriate technical implementation for Chinese IDN TLDs, compliant with CDNC (Chinese Domain Names Consortium) recommendations, and is the current best approach to maintain the security and stability of the Internet.* Indeed Chinese Community has developed mature implementation measures for variant management. I fully agree what you state "Future applications for Chinese IDN TLDs with IDN Variants should follow a similar approach in terms of technical implementation at the root." However, ALAC had made statement that Chinese experience may not be generalized and its variant management may not be applicable to other scripts, such as Arabic. So it is a bit interesting to state it "is the current best approach", although it is no doubt the best for Chinese character set. Best, Hong On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Edmon <edmon@isoc.hk> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
As discussed on our monthly call yesterday, please find attached a draft for our response to the IDN ccTLD Fast Track review ( http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-22oct10-en.htm).
Hong / Charles / Cheryl, please help shepherd the document perhaps also through our WG model at the IDN WG...
In any case, please provide your comments asap, we will try to take all the comments received by Jan 29 (Saturday), turn around a final version by Jan 30 (Sunday) for final circulation, and then submit our comments in at the end of Jan 31 in time before the close of the public comment period.
Edmon
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