[governance] Netizens and citizens / new TLDs?

[Milton Mueller]

Yes, but the ccTLD IDNs are at the second level. To put them in the root
is a bit more complicated. I believe that China has an alt.root working
internally that has some Chinese-character IDNs at the top level. But to
have global compatibility you need to do it via ICANN or use some other
mechanism to ensure global compatibility.

>>> McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> 08/31/05 11:34 AM >>>
On 8/31/05, Milton Mueller <Mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

> 
> To say that ICANN shouldn't add any TLDs until it can add
multilingual
> ones is a mistake; it simply appeals to intercultural jealousies
without
> accomplishing anything. There is no zero sum game, lots of them can
be
> added now or later. There are no proposers of IDN domains at the
moment,

but there are cctld IDNs in production.  This is something that I have
not yet heard in the IDN debates on this list, and wanted to make sure
that folk knew that IDNs are here already (.pl was first in 2003
IIRC).

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
nic-hdl:      TMCG
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