[governance] Re: Response to Stephane Bortzmeyer on IDN

[Danny Butt]

Stephane, there are so many value judgements you're making in your  
historiography.

While I don't have the knowledge or experience to vouch for or  
critique all of Subbiah's points, I can say that your  
characterisation of *all* the work done by alternative navigation  
providers as "selling dummy IDN domain names", when there were also  
clearly other factors at play, perfectly illustrates why much of the  
world outside the Euro-US technical community holds little faith in  
existing governance regimes.

The IETF's "cooperation" and the "openness" of its forum has at times  
been limited. Especially for those who believed that their own  
language groups should be able to use internetworking technologies  
without waiting around for English-language speakers to sort out all  
the problems in a theoretically ideal system.

I think that if those associated with IETF/ICANN are serious about  
seeing the Internet become a truly global facility would do well to  
take a more nuanced and less patronising view of the history of  
alternative naming systems, especially in the Asian region.

Regards

Danny


On 23/02/2007, at 11:09 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> Only one proposal was done in a cooperative way, in an open forum,
> with the intent of being a standard, the IETF IDN Working Group,
> which, after many painful years, arrived in march 2003 to RFC 3490 and
> its friends.
>
> Most (all?) of the other ways were done by small companies whose
> intent was not to suggest a workable and realistic way but to make
> money fast by selling IDN to people gullible enough to buy them.



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