Thaana Script Community Forms Root Zone Label Generation Rules Generation Panel

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced the formation of a Generation Panel to develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules (RZ-LGR) for the Thaana script. This script is used for writing the Maldivian language known as Dhivehi.

Following ICANN's Call for Generation Panels to Develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules, the Thaana script community submitted a Proposal for Generation Panel for Thaana Script Label Generation Ruleset for the Root Zone. The ICANN organization reviewed the proposal, including panel composition and scope, to ensure that requirements set forth in the LGR Procedure and the Call for Generation Panels to Develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules are fulfilled.

With its composition and work plan approved by ICANN, the Thaana script Generation Panel will now start its work on the label generation rules. The full specification of the Generation Panel's tasks can be found in the LGR Procedure.

The current Root Zone LGR version 5 covers the following 26 scripts: Arabic, Armenian, Bangla, Chinese (Han), Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji [Han]), Kannada, Khmer, Korean (Hangul and Hanja [Han]), Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Myanmar, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, and Thai.

For further information about the Internationalized Domain Names Program at ICANN, please visit www.icann.org/idn.

To start a new Generation Panel, or to get involved in an existing one, please send an email to [email protected].

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