I would like to make two comments on the Q.A7 discussion the team has had so far.

First, I think there is value in consulting with the GP to gather more information to help us develop a better and inform viewpoint on this issue of single character TLDs. This is something NCSG will strongly encourage. 

Secondly, we shouldn't be too prescriptive as per the original request to the GPs, that is to have an exclusive hard list of not acceptable characters. I however, think if there are characters which are very obvious to the script experts and that might cause confusion, we could take those and use them to develop an automated tool for use by applicants before making an application for a single character TLD. This should help with predictability and also resolve some of the issues the previous  tool (SWORD) had.

Regards,

Tomslin