ccNSO-GAC Issues Report on IDN Policy Issues

ccNSO and GAC (part of ICANN) has released ccNSO-GAC Issues Report on IDN Policy Issues.

When looking through the document, I see that (at last) many of the difficult issues around selection of strings for internationalized ccTLDs are rised. Some of the questions are though not that coordinated. For example they ask about how many strings can be attached to a script and how many scripts can be attached to a ccTLD that imply a ccTLD could in some cases have more than one string attached to it. In a later question they ask whether an entry in ISO 3166-1 should be connected with the string selected for the ccTLD. Something that is not possible of course if the answer of any of the questions above is yes (which I definitely say). They also talk about language communities without mentioning that one script can be used by more than one language, and because of that potentially more than one country. Like what is the fact for the Arabic script, Hebrew and many others. This implies we talk about a script community more than a language community.

They also forget the ability to create aliases (which I described in a posting here) instead of delegations, and have only asked one short question about what about process at time of introduction without getting into detailed questions about sunrise, multiple rounds and what the stop criteria is for each round (if one will have more than one).

It is much better than earlier papers though.