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Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 11:54 PM
Subject: ICANN News Alert -- Maximal Starting Repertoire Version 1 (MSR-1) for 
the Development of Label Generation Rules for the Root Zone

 

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News Alert


https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-06-20-en

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Maximal Starting Repertoire Version 1 (MSR-1) for the Development of Label 
Generation Rules for the Root Zone


20 June 2014

To support IDN labels in the root zone, the ICANN community, at the direction 
of the Board, undertook several projects to study and make recommendations on 
their viability and delegation. One of these projects is the implementation of 
the Procedure to Develop and Maintain the Label Generation Rules for the Root 
Zone in Respect of IDNA Labels 
<https://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/variant-tlds/draft-lgr-procedure-20mar13-en.pdf>
  [PDF, 1.39 MB] (the Procedure) allowing for the development of Label 
Generation Rules (LGR) for the Root Zone. The LGR for the Root Zone is a 
mechanism for creating and maintaining rules with respect to IDN labels for the 
root.

In the context of the implementation of the Procedure, ICANN is pleased to 
announce that the Integration Panel has released the first version of the 
Maximal Starting Repertoire (MSR-1) 
<https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/reports-2013-04-03-en> . The MSR-1 is 
the first deliverable from the Integration Panel under the Procedure and will 
serve as a fixed collection of code points from which Generation Panels may 
make a selection in constructing the repertoire for their respective LGR 
proposals.

The MSR-1 covers the following 22 scripts: Arabic, Bengali, Cyrillic, 
Devanagari, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han, Hangul, Hebrew, Hiragana, 
Kannada, Katakana, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, and 
Thai. MSR-1 contains 32,790 code points short-listed from 97,973 PVALID/CONTEXT 
code points of Unicode version 6.3.

This release of MSR-1 sets the stage for the work by Generation Panels. In 
addition to selecting their repertoire from within the MSR for developing LGR 
proposals, Generation Panels will also evaluate whether any such code points 
are variants and if any rules are needed to further constrain the labels 
generated using these code points. The resulting LGR proposals by the 
Generation Panels will be released for public comment before they are reviewed 
by the Integration Panel for integration into the Root Zone LGR. If it becomes 
necessary to stage the release of the LGR, for example because not all 
Generation Panels are able to submit proposals at the same time, subsequent 
versions of the LGR may be released.

MSR-1 defers some of the eligible scripts, so as to balance timeliness with 
comprehensiveness. At a later stage, another version of the MSR will be 
developed to include repertoires from the deferred scripts and make other 
additions to the repertoire as warranted. It would be the foundation for any 
subsequent LGR versions. All future versions of the MSR and all versions of the 
LGR must retain full backwards compatibility.

MSR-1 release consists of the following documents:

*       Maximal Starting Repertoire - MSR-1-Overview and Rationale-20140606 
<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/msr-overview-06jun14-en.pdf>  
[PDF, 468 KB]
*       MSR-1-Annotated-Han-Tables-20140606 
<https://icann.box.com/shared/static/4mxq49h6tsc0kldf1cnv.pdf>  [PDF, 43.3 MB]
*       MSR-1-Annotated-Hangul-Tables-20140606 
<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/msr-hangul-06jun14-en.pdf>  [PDF, 
4.19 MB]
*       MSR-1-Annotated-non-CJK-Tables-20140606 
<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/msr-non-cjk-06jun14-en.pdf>  [PDF, 
1.86 MB]

*       MSR-1-Repertoire+WLE-Rules-20140606 
<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/msr-wle-rules-06jun14-en.xml>  
[XML, 741 KB]

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