As a slight nuance (but I think important), I think what we agreed to is that emojis are not part of the current standard for IDN/DNS. As such it is out of scope for UASG.

 

I do not think we support/not-support the development of emoji domains… but the right place to start that discussion may be IETF (not UASG), since the technical protocols need to be updated first for it to become a standard before we can talk about UA readiness for it.

 

Edmon

 

 

 

From: UA-discuss [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Mark Svancarek via UA-discuss
Sent: Friday, March 2, 2018 5:37 AM
To: Roberto Gaetano <roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com>
Cc: ua-discuss@icann.org
Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Emoji domain names redux

 

Yep.

For the record, UASG does not support the use of emojis in domain names.  I think we explicitly declared that during the Seattle meeting in April 2017.

 

From: Roberto Gaetano <roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2018 11:01 AM
To: Mark Svancarek <marksv@microsoft.com>
Cc: ua-discuss@icann.org
Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Emoji domain names redux

 

…as if we did not have enough troubles with the serious stuff…

 

 

On 01.03.2018, at 17:46, Mark Svancarek via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:

 

https://gizmodo.com/emoji-domains-are-the-future-maybe-1823319626