Generation Panels

Generation Panels (GPs) are community-based expert groups, each dedicated to a single script or writing system, that draft the script-specific building blocks of the Root Zone Label Generation Rules (RZ-LGR) under ICANN's 2013 Procedure to Develop and Maintain the Label Generation Rules for the Root Zone in Respect of IDNA Labels.

Working from an Integration Panel's Maximal Starting Repertoire (MSR), which serves as a starting collection of code points from which Generation Panels may make a selection in constructing the repertoire for their respective Root Zone Label Generation Rules (RZ-LGR) proposals, a GP must:

• select the subset of code points that make sense for its script;
• map variants; and
• write Whole-Label Evaluation rules to catch unsafe character sequences before submitting the proposal for the Integration Panel review and public comment.

Panels

As there is one Generation Panel per script or writing-system community, over the life of the Root-Zone LGR project more than two dozen panels have been formed. The RZ-LGR-6 covers the following 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 Hanga [Han]), Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Myanmar, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Thaana, and Thai.