Re: Response on Single Character IDN TLDs [RE: [jig] REMINDER / JIG WG - 08 November at 1300 UTC]

[Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>]

On 8 Nov 2011, at 09:10, Edmon Chung wrote:

> <JIG Response to ICANN Board Resolution on Single Character IDN TLDs.docx>

I also cannot make today's meeting.  

Some comments on the letter.

- I am in agreement with the points it makes and only have some minor comments.

- I think we should spell out the acronym JIG in its first use

- Re: Chinese IDN TLDs, the prohibition of Single Character IDN TLDs would 
effectively devoid the community of single-syllable-single-word TLDs, which is 
otherwise acceptable for English and other alphabetic based language TLDs, 
creating an unjustified situation of inequity, and significantly hindering the 
adoption of IDN.

I don't think a comparison to English single character is helpful here, as 
there are really only 2 words I can think of that are single character in 
English. Also single syllable words are allowed in ASCII, just not single 
letter.  Might be better to leverage the idea that the single character word in 
Chinese eliminates some large number or even percentage of viable word based 
labels (i don't know the number but I am sure someone does)  and indicate that 
such a limitation is not placed on any other script/language.

- re: Implement the community consensus of allowing Single Character IDN TLDs 
without restriction to beyond the first round of the new gTLD process

I think you can drop 'to beyond the first round' it is confusing. Saying 
without restriction should be sufficient.  If you want then phrase it: 

Implement the community consensus of allowing Single Character IDN TLDs, 
beginning in the first round,  without restriction,  of the new gTLD process


avri