[governance] Re: IDN's Internationalized Domain Names - A New Era

[John Levine]

In article <194011.97226.qm at web58903.mail.re1.yahoo.com> you write:
>So by your reckoning Stephane, the last 6 years were wasted and the
>testing by ICANN was irrelevant?

ICANN was shouting "Hey! Look at me!" while other people did the real
work.

The IETF IDNA group did a vast amount of work, including a recently
completed update, to deal with all of the nitpicky stuff about what
characters are allowed in what scripts.  Programmers all over the
world wrote, debugged, and deployed punycode libraries to implement
the IDN specs.

ICANN did a handful of tiny tests which did nothing more than confirm
that everyone else had already done the real work.

R's,
John
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