Re: Re: [REGYCON] FW: [council] Motion from IDNG

May 13, 2010

      Thanks Edmon and Rafik. 

Chuck

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From: Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak@gmail.com> 
To: Edmon Chung <edmon@registry.asia> 
Cc: Gomes, Chuck; council@gnso.icann.org <council@gnso.icann.org>; ck@nic.museum <ck@nic.museum> 
Sent: Thu May 13 06:38:09 2010
Subject: Re: Re: [REGYCON] FW: [council] Motion from IDNG 

Hi,

I accept it as Friendlt amendment too,

Rafik

2010/5/13 Edmon Chung <edmon@registry.asia>

	Yes. Friendly amendment accepted.  Thanks for the edit Cary.
	Edmon

	> -----Original Message-----
	> From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On
	> Behalf Of Gomes, Chuck

	> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 12:57 AM
	> To: council@gnso.icann.org
	> Cc: ck@nic.museum

	> Subject: FW: Re: [REGYCON] FW: [council] Motion from IDNG
	>
	>
	> On behalf of the RySG and in particular Cary Karp, I would like to propose a
	> friendly amendment to the Motion Edmon made for the IDNG drafting team.
	>
	> Edmon - Will you accept this as a friendly amendment?
	>
	> Chuck
	>
	> -----Original Message-----
	> From: GNSO Registry Constituency Planning [mailto:REGYCON-
	> L@NIC.MUSEUM] On Behalf Of Cary Karp
	> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:05 AM
	> To: REGYCON-L@NIC.MUSEUM
	> Subject: Re: [REGYCON] FW: [council] Motion from IDNG
	>
	> > Here is a motion submitted by Edmon to the Council list from the IDNG WG.
	> > Action on this motion is scheduled for 20 May.
	>
	> The passage,
	>
	> "... it is possible that an applicant could apply for both a
	> Letter-Digit-Hyphen (LDH) gTLD in ASCII and a corresponding
	> Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) gTLD that could be deemed to be
	> similar ..."
	>
	> contains a significant error. Labels that conform to the host name rule
	> are normally referred to as LDH labels. TLD labels do not designate
	> hosts and are subject to the further restriction of being alphabetic
	> only; they are not LDH, they are L, but that abbreviation is not used.
	>
	> Since A-labels (the form of an IDN that is actually entered into the
	> DNS) contain both hyphens and digits, they are not currently legal TLD
	> labels. This is regulated in RFC 1123, which is currently being revised
	> to permit A-labels in the root zone. The revision is very carefully
	> worded to restrict permissible A-labels to those that decode to
	> non-ASCII strings which are equivalent to "L-only" in the previous frame
	> of reference. The notions of D and H are deliberately not being
	> internationalized in this process.
	>
	> Here's the relevant draft:
	>
	>         http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-liman-tld-names-02.txt
	>
	> I therefore suggest something along the lines of,
	>
	> "... it is possible that an applicant could apply for both a gTLD with a
	> conventional ASCII label and a corresponding internationalized gTLD (IDN
	> gTLD) that could be deemed to be similar ..."
	>
	> /Cary

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