A-label definition

JFC Morfin jefsey at jefsey.com
Tue Jun 24 13:47:12 CEST 2008


At 13:17 24/06/2008, John C Klensin wrote:
> > Martin that sounds right to me too. John are we missing some
> > important collateral issue?
>
>Nope.  While single-character names make me nervous even with
>"ideographic" scripts, Martin is clearly correct.
>
>Were we (for some value of "we") to go with a document that was
>partially or mostly a discussion of tradeoffs and
>recommendations, as suggested in my previous note, it could
>sensibly discuss the issues here and then leave the decisions to
>ICANN (presumably on a case-by-case basis, which is the way all
>TLD decisions are made).
>
>       john

Full agreement with John's two last mails(about BCP and this one). 
This certainly fits in the ICANN new gTLD evaluation process where 
they also consider other forms of ambiguity and risks due to the way 
proposed TLDs are composed.
jfc



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