All, At the end of today’s discussion we talked about whether to allow 2 character Latin Script applications given that 2 character ASCII characters are all reserved for ccTLDs. In line with that, I believe this group should adopt a similar recommendation as was adopted by SubPro for Single Characters, namely: Recommendation 25.4: Single character gTLDs [170] may be allowed for limited script/language combinations where a character is an ideograph (or ideogram) and do not introduce confusion risks that rise above commonplace similarities, consistent with SSAC171 [171] and Joint ccNSO-GNSO IDN Workgroup (JIG) [172] reports. 170 Meaning a character in a U-label. 171 See report here: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-052-en.pdf 172 See report here: https://ccnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/filefield_22667/jig-final-report... * This would prevent 2 character Cyrillic Script applications as well (not just latin) for things like “ав” “ек” “рш” “ћс” * Or from the Malayalam Script: “ଠട” * Or the Hebrew Script: “ע ס” (and being a descendant from Israelis, I would love to apply for that one for so many reasons) * Or the Ethiopic Script: “ሀሃ” or “ጣፐ” * Or from the Gujarati script “ડ વ” I think that illustrates the point, but I am sure there are more examples. Sincerely, Jeff [cid:image001.png@01D8E9F4.FA740870] Jeffrey J. Neuman Founder & CEO JJN Solutions, LLC p: +1.202.549.5079 E: jeff@jjnsolutions.com<mailto:jeff@jjnsolutions.com> http://jjnsolutions.com
