Esszett, Final Sigma, ZWJ and ZWNJ

[Tina Dam]

Patrik was fastest - and while SE did this initially and early on, others did it following the initial IDN Guideline revision where focus was specifically on reducing confusability. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: idna-update-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:idna-update-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Patrik Fältström
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 2:49 PM
> To: John C Klensin
> Cc: Paul Hoffman; idna-update at alvestrand.no
> Subject: Re: Esszett, Final Sigma, ZWJ and ZWNJ
> 
> 
> On 23 feb 2009, at 23.19, John C Klensin wrote:
> 
> > I can go back and check (and Cary or Tina may know offhand), but my
> > recollection is that several registries that used variants (or other
> > relationships between older and newly-permitted names)
> > as part of IDN sunrise policies did just that.   Keep in mind
> > that every registry whose core language is written in Latin script
> had
> > to deal (or decide to not deal) with a similar problem when it
> > introduced IDNs to expand the "Latin characters"
> > beyond ASCII and various conventions for representing decorated
> > characters in ASCII to permitting registrations that included the
> > decorated characters.
> 
> Sweden had a special rule for this during the sunrise of original
> addition of IDN domain names. At that time, the only ones that could
> register domain names in Sweden where the ones that had a name of a
> person or organisation that had some connection to the registered name.
> During the sunrise, the ones that had a translitterated domain name (ö
> -> o for example) could get a domain name in the first round of the
> sunrise.
> 
> So, this is not something new, that policy changes years after the
> initial registration (in the case of .SE we had the first registered
> domain name 1984 I think, and introduction of IDN 18 years later, in
> 2002).
> 
>     Patrik