Those are all good points.
I am not so sure whether enforcement/oversight is within the scope of our discussion though. On that, I think perhaps more appropriate to rely on existing mechanisms (including for gTLDs the new implementation & policy recommendations)
On the question of “standards or advisory body”, I view this group as the expert “body” producing the guidelines. Although I am not sure whether it is appropriate to understand us as a “body” per se.
More specifically, rather than *defer* to other documents, perhaps we can identify a few sets of documents as our points of references, and *refer* to them in the guidelines:
- Current (and past versions of) IDN Guidelines
- Policy related documents (from ccNSO and GNSO) concerning IDN
- Relevant portions of IDN fast track and AGB
- ICANN IDN Variant project documents
- IDN related RFCs and ongoing IETF works
- (and others maybe)
Building on them though, I think we will need to produce recommendations that may not be explicitly included in those documents.
Edmon
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My suggested talking points below:
Given that this will be an enforceable document, what items belong in the guidelines and what items should be moved out to a non enforceable advisory document?
What criteria and oversight will be applied to each item staying within the guidelines? Should items come from authoritative sources and if those sources modify their advice, should the guidelines explicitly allow contracted parties to follow those modifications?
Will we include any items which have not been recommended by a domain name standards or advisory body and if so, should those recommendations be enforceable?
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Mat’s list is a good set of items for starting discussion.
My contribution below on a more abstract/structural level. I think the following components may be useful for the guidelines:
- Terminology
- IDN Registration Policy Components
- IDN policy development checklist/references
- IDN policies/tables/repertoires considerations
- Technical & linguistic considerations
- IDN Registration
- 2LD registrations
- ccTLD vs gTLD contextual differences
- IDN TLDs
- IDN Variants
- IDN Policy implementation recommendations
- additional implementation guidelines based on ccNSO/GNSO documents
- IDN registration systems
A very rough off the top of my head framework.
Edmon
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Friends,
Enclosed is my contribution to the meeting tomorrow.
Yours,
Mats