Re: [alac] New gTLDs analysis -- Draft

["Dr Xue Hong" <hongxue@xxxxxx>]

> - IDN ccTLDs.  Is it possible to identify a limited and fixed set of
>   "IDN ccTLD identifiers", much like the ISO two-letter codes, but
>   not in Latin, and more suitable for cultures, countries (+
>   distinct economies and territories, etc) where latin characters
>   aren't generally understood, and the current latin ccTLD may be of
>   little use?  These identifiers could be reserved at the root
>   level, or directly assigned to the corresponding ccTLD operators;
>   that would have to happen before IDN gTLDs become available.

IDN ccTLDs, of course, are extremely important to the "language
communities". However, is it necessary to explore this issue in the
evaluation for new "gTLDs"?

IDN gTLDs are substantially different from Latin gTLDs, not only because the
former involves much more complicated technical issues, but also because the
implementation of a IDN gTLD depends on the linguistic rules developed
within the language community, and in some circumstance, needs the
cordination of the countries or regions in the same language community.
Considering that creation and implementation of IDN gTLDs are so closely
related to the language communities that they are, by nature, not suitable
to be "evaluated" by the stakeholders in GNSO, or incorporated in the new
(Latin) gTLD evaluation process. If IDN gTLDs have to included in such a
process within GNSO, it is extremely important to ensure the "participation
of the language
community that would primarily use and be affected by the IDN policy."
Otherwise, the tragedy that has occurred in the so-called "test best" for
IDN.com/net would happen again, which is harmful both to the non-English
speaking users and the stability of DNS.

Hong