Hi Sabine, As far as I understand, the guidelines are mandate for those who have registry agreements with ICANN. For those ccTLDs with no agreements with ICANN, the guidelines are not mandate and can be regarded as recommendations. As a matter of fact, http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/implementation-guidelines.htm says that "Registries seeking to deploy IDNs under their agreements with ICANN have been authorized to do so on the basis of the Guidelines." Hiro On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:55:24 +0100 Sabine Dolderer <dolderer@denic.de> wrote:

Dear Gabi,

I have to admit that I haven't read the whole IDN Implementation Guidelines. But as far as I read them they talk about registration policies on the second level. Can you point me please to the documents where it is defined that ICANN and/or the ccNSO has any mandate to "require" ccTLDs to comply with any rule set by ICANN with to policies on the second level.

Sabine

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Von: Gabriella Schittek <gabriella.schittek@icann.org> An: "ccnso-members@icann.org" <ccnso-members@icann.org>, "cctldcommunity@cctld-managers.org" <ccTLDcommunity@cctld-managers.org> Kopie: "ccnso-council@icann.org" <ccnso-council@icann.org> Datum: 23.11.2011 16:04 Betreff: [ccnso-members] Version 3.0 IDN Implementation Guidelines Gesendet von: owner-ccnso-members@icann.org

Dear all,

ICANN is providing notice of implementation for version 3.0 of the Guidelines for Implementation of Internationalised Domain Names: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-3-22nov11-en.htm

The IDN Guidelines are a list of general standards that all top-level domain registries deploying IDNs are required to follow based on the Internationalised Domain Names for Applications (IDNA) protocol standard from the IETF. Registries offering IDN registrations should begin transitioning to version 3.0 of the IDN Guidelines.

Kind regards,

Gabi