15(b) Describe the process used for development of the IDN tables submitted, including consultations and sources used

Prototypical answer:

Kerry Trading Co. Limited has selected Verisign to provide backend registry services for the .嘉里 gTLD. Verisign’s registration software is in compliance with all current IDN standards, including ICANN’s IDN Guidelines, as well as The Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA 2008) specification, published by the IETF as RFC 5891.

The IDN tables provided herein represent Unicode characters allowed for registration by Verisign’s software. The data in these tables come from three categories of source material.

1. Openly available language standards, published in RFC and other formats, by appropriate authorities.

2. The Unicode Standard, specifically definitions of written scripts as defined by this well-known specification.

3. ICANN’s own IDN Implementation Guidelines, which provide some special rules for domain registration, especially code points not appropriate for the Domain Name System.


The characters are provided in an ASCII text format that adheres strictly to the RFC 4290 specification. The files are machine readable, but also include comment headers to provide human readable inquiry information. The files satisfy all IANA publication requirements and are posted on IANA’s IDN repository.

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