[governance] ICANN declined Bulgarian IDN fast-track

[Avri Doria]

hi,

i may be wrong.  the DAG says:

Part I -- Technical Requirements for all Labels (Strings) – The
technical requirements for top-level domain labels follow.

1.1 The ASCII label (i.e., the label as transmitted on the wire) must be valid as specified in technical standards Domain Names: Implementation and Specification (RFC 1035), and Clarifications to the DNS Specification (RFC 2181). This includes the following:

1.1.1 The label must have no more than 63 characters.

1.1.2 Upper and lower case characters are treated as identical.

1.2 The ASCII label must be a valid host name, as specified in the technical standards DOD Internet Host Table Specification (RFC 952), Requirements for Internet Hosts — Application and Support (RFC 1123), and Application Techniques for Checking and Transformation of Names (RFC 3696). This includes the following:

1.2.1 The label must consist entirely of letters, digits and hyphens.

1.2.2 The label must not start or end with a hyphen.

1.3 There must be no possibility for confusing an ASCII label for an IP address or other numerical identifier by application software. For example, representations such as “255”, “o377” (255 in octal) or “0xff” (255 in hexadecimal) as the top-level domain can be interpreted as IP addresses. As such, labels:

1.3.1 Must not be wholly comprised of digits between “0” and “9.”

1.3.2 Must not commence with “0x” or “x,” and have the remainder of the label wholly
comprised of hexadecimal digits, “0” to “9” and “a” through “f.”

1.3.3 Must not commence with “0o” or “o,” and have the remainder of the label wholly comprised of digits between “0” and “7.”

1.4 The ASCII label may only include hyphens in the third and fourth position if it represents a valid internationalized domain name in its A-label form (ASCII encoding as described in Part II).

1.5 The presentation format of the domain (i.e., either the label for ASCII domains, or the U-label for internationalized domain names) must not begin or
end with a digit.2

so by this it seems ok.  though policy would still forbid giving it to anyone other than a country form who 6r was a meaningful representation, but the rule i getting wrong was that it could not start and end with a digit.  and that is in the DAG and has to do with concern over misinterpretation by various applications in the world.

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but then again  - rfc 1035

The following syntax will result in fewer problems with many

applications that use domain names (e.g., mail, TELNET).

<domain> ::= <subdomain> | " "

<subdomain> ::= <label> | <subdomain> "." <label>

<label> ::= <letter> [ [ <ldh-str> ] <let-dig> ]

<ldh-str> ::= <let-dig-hyp> | <let-dig-hyp> <ldh-str>

<let-dig-hyp> ::= <let-dig> | "-"

<let-dig> ::= <letter> | <digit>

<letter> ::= any one of the 52 alphabetic characters A through Z in
upper case and a through z in lower case

<digit> ::= any one of the ten digits 0 through 9

Note that while upper and lower case letters are allowed in domain
names, no significance is attached to the case.  That is, two names with
the same spelling but different case are to be treated as if identical.

The labels must follow the rules for ARPANET host names.  They must
start with a letter, end with a letter or digit, and have as interior
characters only letters, digits, and hyphen.  There are also some
restrictions on the length.  Labels must be 63 characters or less.



a.

On 29 Jun 2010, at 06:24, Eric Dierker wrote:

> Please reference
> 
> From: Avri Doria <avri at acm.org>
> To: IGC <governance at lists.cpsr.org>
> Sent: Mon, June 28, 2010 12:42:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [governance] Hi norbert,nance] ICANN declined Bulgarian IDN fast-track
> 
> hi,
> 
> leading digits are being considered unsafe. 
> 
> a.
> 
> On 28 Jun 2010, at 18:15, JFC Morfin wrote:
> 
> > At 17:25 28/06/2010, Avri Doria wrote:
> >> what is said was the only thing it could possibly be confused with is <.6r>. and since that can't never be a TLD. then there is no confusing similarity.
> > 
> > Why "6r" could not be a TLD? I mean, you have an RFC reference?
> > jfc
> > 
> 
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