Fwd: [gnso-idn-wg] One comment on techno-policy details

[Mawaki Chango]

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 <ehchun at gmail.com> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 03:59:17 +0900
> From: "Chun Eung Hwi" <ehchun at gmail.com>
> To: gnso-idn-wg at icann.org
> 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
>
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