Dear Rinalia, thank you for your follow-up on this. The problem with starting a 5 day vote on this today is that this is the week when people are travelling to Toronto. They might miss the vote in their accumulated email. I note that the comment period closes on 18 October. Couldn't this wait for a F2F vote in our Thursday wrap-up? Kind regards, Olivier On 05/10/2012 04:07, Rinalia Abdul Rahim wrote:
Dear Olivier,
The drafted *ALAC Statement on the Draft IDN ccTLD String Selection Criteria, Requirements and Processes Policy Recommendations* (pasted below) has received no objections on all the ALAC and At-Large lists. I have conferred with Edmon Chung and we concur that the statement is ready for an ALAC vote. I am passing this matter over to you and staff for onward ALAC action (i.e., vote).
Best regards,
Rinalia
*ALAC Statement on the Draft IDN ccTLD String Selection Criteria, Requirements and Processes Policy Recommendations*
The At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) commends the International Domain Names (IDN) country code Policy Development Process Working Group 1 for the comprehensiveness of its draft policy recommendations on the IDN ccTLD String Selection Criteria, Requirements and Processes for territories listed in the ISO 3166-1 list. We note that the recommendations are based on the previous work of the IDNC Working Group and we are pleased to see that the recommendations reflect the learning drawn from the implementation of the IDNccTLD Fast Track Process over the past few years.
We wish to reiterate the significance and importance of IDNs, including IDN Top Level Domains (TLDs) at both the generic and country code levels. We believe that IDNs are crucial for enhancing diversity and multilingualism on the Internet.
We observe that the draft recommendations do not address the issue of variant TLDs and instead contain a placeholder in Section J, which points out that issues pertaining to the management of such TLDs are still being discussed in the ICANN community and will be added later.
We believe that the draft recommendations should indicate that the issue of variants is urgent and need to be addressed in a timely manner. Concurrently, the draft recommendations should also affirm that the outcomes of the variants discussion pertaining to the Label Generation Ruleset (LGR) for the Root Zone would be binding and applicable to all TLDs (including ccTLDs), given that the overarching principle of the LGR process is the security and stability of the Root Zone, which is shared by all Internet users.
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-- Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD http://www.gih.com/ocl.html