[jig] Comment AP-TLD

[Bart Boswinkel <bart.boswinkel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,
Included comment received by APTLD. Received on 13 September 2010. Submission 
date accepted by the chairs of the working group. Submission will be included 
in the overview. Kind regards,
Bart Boswinkel


The APTLD has reviewed the initial report from the joint ccNSO and GNSO IDN 
working group (JIG) on the Introduction of Single Character IDN TLD dated 27 
July 2010.

We would like to make the following comments to the report.

1.         We believe that Single Character IDN TLD is important to various 
stakeholders within the Asia Pacific region, for example, the Chinese, 
Japanese, and Korean Internet communities. CJK has tens of thousands of 
characters. One CJK character has the same expressive power and the same degree 
of meaning distinctiveness as an ASCII string with three letters (26 x 26 x 26 
= 17576). These stakeholders would be significantly marginalised if Single 
Character IDN TLD would not be available.
2.         We are also cautious that Single Character IDN TLD should not be 
exempted from the current restrictions on similarity to the geographic names 
and confusability with the ASCII character set. Single Character IDN TLD that 
represents a geographic name, for example, .中 (vs .中国 China), should be 
subjected to additional restrictions as imposed by the Draft Application 
Guidebook for geographical names.
3.         We are also aware that for alphabetic scripts other than those from 
CJK and ASCII, e.g. Arabic, might give rise to confusions with other strings. 
We welcome further careful study into this issue.
4.         The current Draft Application Guidebook has allocation methods that 
have taken into consideration the economic value of the strings. Devising 
additional methods is unlikely to improve it further and would only add 
unnecessary complexity to the process.
4.
Jian Zhang (Ms)
General Manager
APTLD