In case anyone is interested in IDN and is not on the WG, please find pieces of some interesting discussion taking place on the WG - to follow. Mawaki --- Chun Eung Hwi <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 03:59:17 +0900 > From: "Chun Eung Hwi" <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [gnso-idn-wg] One comment on techno-policy details > > Dear all, > > I couldn't catch up the recent debates, but I want to make quick > comment on > one issue of "limit confusion caused by variants", which I could > read from > conference call 23 January overview - 2.2 as follows; > > 2.2 Agreement to limit confusion and collisions due to variants. > Agreement > that this may be a stability and security issue and part of the > reserved > name process. Agreement that variants of an IDN gTLD string be > treated in > analogy with current practice for IDN SLD labels, i.e. variants are > not > available for registration by others. Agreement that this approach > implies > certain "ex ante rights" with similarities to the "confusingly > similar" test > foreseen in the New gTLD recommendations. Agreement that such > "rights" must > not be confounded with IPR rights as such. Some support for > enabling a > choice for an IDN gTLD strings with variants to only block variants > or to > use variants as aliasing. > > What I want to clarify here is the fact that variants come from the > same > language or the same language family. Therefore, the confusion or > collision > happen in the same language or within the same language family as > well. We > cannot use the term of variant in case when some translated or > transliterated or phonetically same or similar words (language > script > labels) are to be taken into account. And obviously, in different > languages > or in different language families, there is no longer confusion or > collision > even when those in respective language are similar or the same in > graphics, > semantics and sound because different language scripts must be > distinctive > itself. So, in this case, "confusingly similar" test cannot be > applied. > Accordingly, across different language script labels, there should > not be > any "ex ante rights" of the existing TLD label, and so any reserved > name > policy would not necessarily be designed. > > > regards, > > Chun > > -- > --------------------- > Chun Eung Hwi > General Secretary, PeaceNet Korea > [log in to unmask] > pcs (+82) 19-259-2667 > fax (+82) 2-2649-2624 >