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The GNSO Council received a briefing on the topic during its meeting at [[ICANN 78]] in October 2023 and subsequently requested that ICANN org prepare an Issue Report on Latin Script diacritics. On May 16, 2024 the Council adopted a resolution directing staff to prepare a Preliminary Issue Report.<ref name="lsd-gnso-active"></ref> <ref name="lsd-prelim-ir"></ref> The Preliminary Issue Report, published on July 17, 2024, defined the issue as the specific circumstance in which an ASCII gTLD and the Latin script diacritic version of that gTLD are not variants of each other but may be visually similar, with no current mechanism for the same registry to operate both labels.<ref name="lsd-prelim-ir"></ref> | The GNSO Council received a briefing on the topic during its meeting at [[ICANN 78]] in October 2023 and subsequently requested that ICANN org prepare an Issue Report on Latin Script diacritics. On May 16, 2024 the Council adopted a resolution directing staff to prepare a Preliminary Issue Report.<ref name="lsd-gnso-active"></ref> <ref name="lsd-prelim-ir"></ref> The Preliminary Issue Report, published on July 17, 2024, defined the issue as the specific circumstance in which an ASCII gTLD and the Latin script diacritic version of that gTLD are not variants of each other but may be visually similar, with no current mechanism for the same registry to operate both labels.<ref name="lsd-prelim-ir"></ref> | ||
The Preliminary Issue Report was put out for Public Comment from July 18 to August 27, 2024. Forty-one submissions were received; thirty-seven supported initiating a PDP, two were mixed, one opposed a PDP, and one was considered out of scope. Supportive comments emphasized multilingualism, end-user equity, and alignment with Universal Acceptance efforts, while concerns focused on potential user confusion and security risks in environments where many visually similar labels might coexist.<ref name="lsd-pc">[https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/proceeding/preliminary-issue-report-on-latin-script-diacritics-18-07-2024 ICANN Public Comment: Preliminary Issue Report on Latin Script Diacritics]</ref> | |||
Taking this input into account, ICANN org produced the Final Issue Report on September 12, 2024. The report recommended that the GNSO Council initiate a PDP limited to a single policy question: what mechanism, if any, is needed to allow a single registry operator simultaneously to operate a base ASCII gTLD and the Latin script diacritic version of the gTLD where the labels are not variants but may be visually similar.<ref name="lsd-final-ir"></ref> <ref name="lsd-gnso-active"></ref> | |||
On November 13, 2024, during [[ICANN 81]], the GNSO Council adopted a resolution initiating the PDP on Latin Script Diacritics. A draft charter included in the Final Issue Report was updated and then formally adopted as the working group charter on December 19, 2024.<ref name="lsd-gnso-active"></ref> | |||
The working group held its first meeting in March 2025.<ref>[https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/gnsolsdpdp/pages/122159105/2025-03-26+Latin+Script+Diacritics+-+Meeting+01 ICANN Community: 2025-03-26 Latin Script Diacritics - Meeting #01]</ref> | |||
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