LOS ANGELES – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (lCANN) announced the release of the Recommendations for the Technical Utilization of the Root Zone Label Generation Rules by the Root Zone Label Generation Rules Study Group (RZ-LGR SG). These recommendations are being provided to the ICANN Board for further consideration.

With the availability of the Root Zone Label Generation Rules (RZ-LGR) and its fundamental role envisaged for defining the variant labels of top-level domains (TLDs), the ICANN Board asked the ICANN community (including Supporting Organizations (SOs), Advisory Committees (ACs), and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB)) to study and recommend how to technically apply the RZ-LGR in a harmonized way to generic and country code top top-level domains (gTLDs/ccTLDs).

To address the request from the ICANN Board, the RZ-LGR SG was formed from the nominees of SOs, ACs, IAB, and additional volunteers from the ICANN community following the call for formation in February 2018. The SG first determined the scope of its work, and enriched it with feedback received from the community through the first public comment call in August 2018.  Based on this scope, the SG has developed a set of recommendations, which was released for public comment in May 2019. The RZ-LGR SG has now completed and published its Recommendations for the Technical Utilization of the Root Zone Label Generation Rules, after incorporating the community feedback. Further details of the SG's work are available at the wiki page.