[Ncsg-discuss] Latin diacritics public comment

[farzaneh badii]

Thanks Tapani

Here is the Google doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ThmEn9d9YOkFK1qy5PY04ixXKzBqWTslX85LCSKT7_U/edit?tab=t.0

We also need to respond to GPI analysis and HRIA analysis they have done.



Farzaneh


On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM Tapani Tarvainen <
00001e7f5908374c-dmarc-request at listserv.syr.edu> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am drafting a public comment about the initial report of the Latin
> Script Diacritics PDP. It has been open for comments for over a month
> already, my apologies for being a bit late here, but there's still a
> week to go, deadline is February 23.
>
> They are using a guided submission form, which makes it a bit hard to
> collaborate on the comment. I haven't yet arranged my ideas to fit
> that, but I'll get around to it.
>
> I don't have pretty, submission-ready text yet, but as time is short,
> here's roughly what I'm going to say:
>
> The main substantive thing is that they should allow characters that
> for purposes of DNS behave just as if they were diacritics even if
> they aren't by Unicode definition, like đ and ø.
>
> (Unicode definition does not agree with the original linguistic one,
> it was just convenient to use to save time in the WG. In any case here
> it's in effect just a proxy for "Latin extensions that are visually
> confusable with base ASCII characters".)
>
> I'm also going to comment about the requirement that the base ASCII
> version of the TLD is always needed (that is, you couldn't have
> things like .sjö and .sjó without also having .sjo).
>
> I'm also a bit uneasy about how the single-entity principle
> requirement is done, but maybe it won't be worth commenting on.
>
> I'll re-read the report in detail and may come up with other stuff to
> say, but probably nothing big.
>
> Anyway, any ideas about this would be welcome. Feel free to comment
> here or write to me directly, as you like. (I'll try to overcome my
> distaste for googlish things and make a shareable google doc to draft
> this on, but not today.)
>
> --
> Tapani Tarvainen
>
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