May 2020 - Comments-lgr-second-level-2-30mar20

RySG Comments on Guidelines for Developing Reference LGRs for the Second Level Version 2
by Demetriou, Samantha May 12, 2020

May 12, 2020

Hello, On behalf of the gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG), please find attached our comments on the Guidelines for Developing Reference Label Generation Rules (LGRs) for the Second Level Version 2. In the interest of time, we did not conduct a vote on these comments. We did discuss them on our mailing list and during a biweekly conference call, and no member opposed their submission. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns. Best, Samantha Demetriou RySG Vice Chair, Policy

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Section 6
by Pitinan Kooarmornpatana May 11, 2020

May 11, 2020

This comment is posted on half of Bill Jouris < bill.jouris(a)insidethestack.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Section 6, paragraph (page 11) states: "[TLD] provides a definition of variant as well as suggests which variants are appropriate, and [TLD] adds additional information. The results of these projects can be seen as authoritative for script-based LGRs." But for TLDs an extremely narrow definition of "variants" is used -- one which includes only those cases which not even a tiny fraction of the user population will notice. A rather larger group (distinguishable by perhaps 10% of the population, while not noticed by the remaining 90%+) are classified as "confusables". For them, a Similarity Review Panel is envisioned to conduct a manual review process. Is it planned that something similar will be done with SLDs? Or will the "confusables" from the TLD project be included as "variants" here?

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Section 5.1
by Pitinan Kooarmornpatana May 11, 2020

May 11, 2020

This comment is posted on half of Bill Jouris < bill.jouris(a)insidethestack.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Section 5.1 paragraph 1 (page 9) notes that SLDs can include a variety of code points not allowed in TLDs -- for example digits. These were not considered when identifying variants for TLDs. How will variants involving these code points be identified? (As an example, the digit 1 (Unicode 0031) is a homoglyph of the Latin Small Letter L (Unicode 006C) in many fonts.)

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The reference for TLD
by Pitinan Kooarmornpatana May 11, 2020

May 11, 2020

This comment is posted on half of Bill Jouris < bill.jouris(a)insidethestack.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The reference for TLD (https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/variant-tlds-2012-05-08-en) returns an error indicating that the page does not exist.

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