Esszett, Final Sigma, ZWJ and ZWNJ

[Vint Cerf]

Tina,

thanks for this additional input and linguistic observation. Of  
course, the WG isn't responsible for determining what the registry  
should do, but example possibilities might be helpful, including your  
proposition.

vint



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On Feb 21, 2009, at 4:28 PM, Tina Dam wrote:

> On February 21, 2009 1:02 PM, Vint Cerf wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> My reading of the consensus is that the WG has discussed and  
>> generally
>> accepted that Esszett, Final Sigma, ZWJ and ZWNJ can be made PVALID.
>
> I completely agree.
>
>> For registries that formerly mapped Esszett or Final Sigma, the
>> solutions are:
>>
>> 1. block registration of Esszett and Final Sigma at the registry  
>> level
>> (in which case any former registration forms are still valid but will
>> not be found by entering the newly PVALID characters)
>>
>> 2. Bundle Esszett with "ss" and Final Sigma with lower case ("sigma")
>> (and do so retrospectively for all prior registrations of the mapped
>> forms).
>
> I don't think bundling the two sigma's is a good solution. One is  
> used in the middle of a word and the other at the end of a word. Not  
> only are the two characters used differently they also look  
> completely different. So while it's a registry decision on how to  
> deal with this I don't think this group should make that bundling  
> recommendation.
>
> But it strikes me there is a different solution. Open up for  
> allowing the new characters for registration in a sunrise fashion,  
> where existing registrants (in whatever workaround solution was  
> applied previously for accommodating strings that otherwise would  
> have contain either Esszett, Final Sigma, or ZWJ or ZWNJ) to pre- 
> register using these new chars in replacement or addition to their  
> current domain name registration.
>
> Tina