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<p>Wonderful news! Tx you for the work you, Tapani and others are
doing on this important PDP. </p>
<p>Safe travels to all who are still in transit!</p>
<p>Best, Kathy</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/12/2026 4:34 PM, Juliana Harsianti
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<div dir="ltr">As the addition to Tapani’s update, the PDP team
and ICANN staf also have praised the NCSG input on the HRIA
assessment. As LD-PDP has became the first PDP which applied the
HRIA, the (NCSG) input has taken into consideration and as the
assessment benchmark for the future PDPs.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Best,</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Juliana<br>
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On Monday, March 9, 2026, Tapani Tarvainen <<a
href="mailto:00001e7f5908374c-dmarc-request@listserv.syr.edu"
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style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear
all,<br>
<br>
Latin Diacritics PDP working group held a meeting in Mumbai
yesterday.<br>
<br>
There isn't all that much to report, however. The agenda was
reviewing<br>
public comments on the preliminary report, but there was time
for only<br>
one of them: the one from ICANN org. That was *very* long, but
mostly<br>
about minor language issues - for example, fair amount of time
was<br>
spent on talking about the differences (or lack thereof)
between<br>
"in accordance with", "in line with" and "consistent with".<br>
<br>
One of their more substantive concerns was if the applicant
would<br>
be allowed to withdraw the ASCII version of the domain and
continue<br>
to apply only for the diacritical one. The WG thought (like
before)<br>
that it should be allowed, as it would in effect be no
different<br>
than applying for only the diacritical one to begin with.<br>
<br>
(This would not apply if there are several diacritical
domains,<br>
as at least for now multiple diacritical domains would only be<br>
allowed to coexist together with the corresponding ASCII TLD.)<br>
<br>
There was some interesting discussion about whether
diacritical<br>
domains would have to be "the same", i.e., just different
spellings of<br>
the same words, or if they could be really different (in many<br>
languages diacritical marks can change the meaning of the word<br>
entirely). It was noted that the PDP's intent is the former
but that<br>
in practice there's no way to enforce it.<br>
<br>
Other comments, including NCSG's, will be discussed in future<br>
online meetings.<br>
<br>
Greetings from Mumbai,<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Tapani Tarvainen<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Kathy Kleiman
Past President, Domain Name Rights Coalition</pre>
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