[Ncsg-discuss] Latin Diacritics PDP in Mumbai

[Kathy Kleiman]

Wonderful news!  Tx you for the work you, Tapani and others are doing on 
this important PDP.

Safe travels to all who are still in transit!

Best, Kathy

On 3/12/2026 4:34 PM, Juliana Harsianti wrote:
> 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.
>
> Best,
>
> Juliana
>
> On Monday, March 9, 2026, Tapani Tarvainen 
> <00001e7f5908374c-dmarc-request at listserv.syr.edu> wrote:
>
>     Dear all,
>
>     Latin Diacritics PDP working group held a meeting in Mumbai yesterday.
>
>     There isn't all that much to report, however. The agenda was reviewing
>     public comments on the preliminary report, but there was time for only
>     one of them: the one from ICANN org. That was *very* long, but mostly
>     about minor language issues - for example, fair amount of time was
>     spent on talking about the differences (or lack thereof) between
>     "in accordance with", "in line with" and "consistent with".
>
>     One of their more substantive concerns was if the applicant would
>     be allowed to withdraw the ASCII version of the domain and continue
>     to apply only for the diacritical one. The WG thought (like before)
>     that it should be allowed, as it would in effect be no different
>     than applying for only the diacritical one to begin with.
>
>     (This would not apply if there are several diacritical domains,
>     as at least for now multiple diacritical domains would only be
>     allowed to coexist together with the corresponding ASCII TLD.)
>
>     There was some interesting discussion about whether diacritical
>     domains would have to be "the same", i.e., just different spellings of
>     the same words, or if they could be really different (in many
>     languages diacritical marks can change the meaning of the word
>     entirely). It was noted that the PDP's intent is the former but that
>     in practice there's no way to enforce it.
>
>     Other comments, including NCSG's, will be discussed in future
>     online meetings.
>
>     Greetings from Mumbai,
>
>     -- 
>     Tapani Tarvainen
>
-- 
Kathy Kleiman
Past President, Domain Name Rights Coalition
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