ICANN IDN Variant TLDs Issues Project
Coordination Team Meeting, Wednesday, 30 November 2011
TRANSCRIPT and RECORDING
On the call:
Harald Alvestrand, Raiomond Doctor, Sarmad Hussain, Manal Ismail, Akshat Joshi, Cary Karp, Panagiotis Papaspiliopoulos, Alexey Mykhaylov, Vaggelis Segredakis, Vladimir Shadrunov, Alexei Sozonov, Joseph Yee, Dennis Jennings, Patrick Jones, Kurt Pritz, Baher Esmat, Naela Sarras, Francisco Arias, Kim Davies, Hayley Laframboise, Karen Lentz, Andrew Sullivan, Steve Sheng
Apologies:
Nicholas Ostler
Meeting Agenda (and Notes):
Welcome and Roll Call (start recording)
Minutes and Action Items
- Hayley reviewed action items from last week
- December Face-to-Face Meeting (Naela)
Everyone should have received their hotel booking information. Remote participation information will be provided in the next few days.
- Establishing Code Point Repertoires (Andrew)
Andrew summarized the document shared about the three options for establishing code point repertoires.
- Visual Similarity (Steve)
Francisco summarized the discussion from the mailing list on “visual similarity or variants?”
- Whole-String Issues (Francisco)
Francisco summarized that there are two open issues on the topic: 1) The Greek topic on Katharevousa and Dimotiki, and 2) ZWNJ.
Francisco proposed to set aside the ZWNJ.
Should have in the report a clear statement about the origin of the ZWNJ rule.
- Operations Issues (Karen & Steve)
Karen provided a summary of the issues in this document.
- User Experience (Kim)
(topic deferred, no time to discuss in today’s call).
- Evaluation of Applications for Variant gTLDs (Karen)
- Objection Process
- Fees Issues
- Taxonomy of variants (Andrew)
Update on discussions on list
- AoB
Dennis explained that a first rough draft of the report will be shared on Monday, 5 December. We will discuss the draft and any other issues that still need discussion on next week’s call, 7 December.
Action Items:
- Dennis asked all the team members to review the operations document and send comments to the mailing list.
