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 Proposal for Armenian Script Root Zone‬ Label Generation Rules (LGR)No StatementNarine Khachatryann/an/an/an/an/aSarmad Hussain sarmad.hussain@icann.orgn/a


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Brief Overview

Purpose (Brief): The Armenian script community has formed the Armenian Generation Panel (GP), which in turn has developed a Proposal for an Armenian Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules (Proposal [XML, 8 KB] and Proposal Documentation [PDF, 1.28 MB]). As per the LGR Procedure [PDF, 772 KB], this proposal is being posted for public comments to allow those who have not participated in the Armenian GP to make their views known to the Armenian Generation Panel so it can finalize the proposal for integration into the Label Generation Rules for the Root Zone.

Current Status: Currently there are multiple script communities which are actively working towards developing the Label Generation Rules (LGR) for the Root Zone. These include Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu. Among these, Armenian GP is the first one to complete and submit an LGR proposal.

Next Steps: Following the public comments, and submission of the proposal with any changes to reflect the public comments, the Integration Panel (IP) will evaluate the final proposal by the Armenian GP. If evaluation by the IP is successful, the Proposal for the Armenian Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules will be integrated into the first version of the Label Generation Rules for the Root Zone (LGR-1). Otherwise, the proposal will be sent to the Armenian GP with comments for further consideration and revision.

Section I: Description, Explanation, and Purpose

Following the Call for Generation Panels to Develop Root Zone Label Generation Rulespublished on 11 July 2013, the Armenian script community organized to form the Armenian Generation Panel (GP), which was seated by ICANN on 3 February 2015.  The Armenian GP has developed a Proposal for an Armenian Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules [XML, 8 KB], following the format prescribed in the LGR specification, together with supporting documentation for this proposal [PDF, 1.28 MB].

According to the LGR Procedure [PDF, 772 KB], the starting point for the work of the Armenian GP is the second version of the Maximal Starting Repertoire (MSR-2). The work has been carried following the specification of Generation Panel's tasks, as described in the LGRProcedure [PDF, 772 KB] in particular, Section B.3 "Variant Rule Generation Procedure". These tasks are summarized in the guide on Setting up and Running a Generation Panel.

As per the LGR Procedure [PDF, 772 KB], the generation panel's proposals are posted for public comment using the ICANN public comment procedures. This permits those who have not participated in the generation panel to make their views known to the integration panel. A well-functioning public comment procedure is a critical component of this procedure, because there is no formal appeal mechanism for the LGR being developed.

The LGR Procedure [PDF, 772 KB] for consists of two passes. The first pass creates a set of LGRs, each specific for a given script or writing system; this task is carried out by Generation Panels composed of people with deep experience or interest in the script, writing system or language used by some community of Internet users. These panels submit their LGR proposals to ICANN for review by an Integration Panel. The Integration Panel consists of independent experts in DNS, Unicode and scripts, and has responsibility for the second pass. This second pass involves integrating the proposals into a unified set of LGRs for the root zone, taking into account the need for a secure, stable and reliable DNS root zone.

Section II: Background

Label Generation Rules (LGR) for the Root Zone are being developed to define a conservative mechanism to determine valid IDN TLDs and their variants, for stable and secure operation of the Internet's Root Zone.

Successful development of Label Generation Rules depends on having community based Generation Panels for each script that will be used in the Root Zone. Generation Panel members are representatives of the each of the communities that use a particular script or writing system – their role is to identify the valid characters, variants and Whole Label Evaluation (WLE) rules for the given script or writing system. Each Generation Panel starts by considering the code points for the relevant script that are present in the Maximal Starting Repertoire and, based on them, develop a Label Generation Rule proposal to be used to generate TLDs for that script. In doing so, they may need to coordinate efforts with other GPs, whenever their respective scripts are closely related. These proposals are then reviewed by the community through public comment and by an expert Integration Panel for approval and integration into the LGR for the Root Zone. The details are defined in Procedure to Develop and Maintain the Label Generation Rules for theRoot Zone in Respect of IDNA Labels [PDF, 1.39 MB].

Section III: Relevant Resources

Section IV: Additional Information

Section V: Reports

Staff Contact

Sarmad Hussain
sarmad.hussain@icann.org

 

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2 Comments

  1. Narine Khachatryan

    The Proposal for Armenian Script Root Zone LGR (https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/proposal-armenian-script-root-zone-lgr-04jun15-en.pdf) is generally reasonable.

    Here are two remarks regarding the content of the proposal:  
    1. Much of the Armenian Diaspora in the world is concentrated in Russia, the US and France. Russia can be mentioned in the list of countries where the Armenian language is widely spoken. According to different estimations, the Armenian diaspora in Russia is estimated between 2.3 and 2.5 million people, while the population in Armenia was last recorded at 3 million people in 2014.

    2. The first letter of the Armenian Alphabet, the letter AYB ‘ա’ and the Cyrillic letter ‘ш’ (SHA) can be considered as cross-script homoglyphs. As a symbol and term the Armenian AYB (Ա ա) corresponds to the Greek letter Alpha and is the most frequently used letter of the Armenian language. The letter AYB (Ա ա) is also used to denote the number 1 in Armenian. 

  2. Olivier Crepin-Leblond

    I think that both of these remarks are factually correct.

    1. WIKIPEDIA indeed indentified Russia as one country with a large Armenian Diaspora
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_diaspora
      (This information is corroborated by figures obtained independently on other Web sites that I checked)
    2. In my eyes, Armenian letter AYB ‘ա’ and the Cyrillic letter ‘ш’ (SHA) indeed look like cross-script homoglyphs. It is worth noting that pointing out cross-script homoglyphs is important due to the possibility of visual lconfusion not only by users of the script but indeed every Internet user.

    I am unaware of any political dimension in pointing out (or not pointing out) either of these and would suggest that (a) the IDN Working Group discuss this and reach consensus on this, but also that (b) the ALAC Chair checks with all parties any political dimension that might evade our knowledge.