Rubens, what is your opinion regarding variants policy? Should registrants be obliged to register all variants at the 2nd level to avoid confusion? From: UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org> On Behalf Of Mark W. Datysgeld Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2019 1:13 PM To: ua-discuss@icann.org; Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@nic.br>; ua-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [UA-discuss] Ideas for engagement with stakeholders in Germany I see Rubens might have a vested interest in this one. :D -- Mark W. Datysgeld from Governance Primer [www.markwd.website] In partnership with AR-TARC and the Brazilian Association of Software Companies (ABES) On November 24, 2019 5:19:51 AM GMT+01:00, Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@nic.br<mailto:rubensk@nic.br>> wrote: On 24 Nov 2019, at 00:22, Mark W. Datysgeld <mark@governanceprimer.com<mailto:mark@governanceprimer.com>> wrote: Hello everyone, I exchanged a few messages with Lars earlier this year, and would like to present below some points he raised that should be useful both for the IGF next week and looking towards ICANN meeting C next year, being tailored towards German stakeholders. In my view, we can aim to always try gathering such regional insights moving forward to optimize our engagement. Special characters: Eszett (ß) and Umlaut (ü) have fallback options by default: * Eszett becomes "ss". * Capital Eszett (ẞ) has only recently been introduced officially to the language, meaning that anything in capital letters used to be written using "SS" even on the press. * Umlaut characters (ä, ö, ü) become "ae", "oe", "ue". Long live the Umlaut! Rubens Kühl