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

[Tracy F. Hackshaw @ Google]

It's passing strange that the community of potential IDN users - at least
those who were in Seoul last week (where I was) -  including many of those
people mentioned here - seemed to have genuinely and unanimously welcomed
this in spite of the negatives which have appeared in this thread.

BTW, for those who are interested, the public testing of IDNs facilitated by
the dreaded ICANN has been and continues to be available at
http://idn.icann.org/IDNwiki

<http://idn.icann.org/IDNwiki>Within that article are links to the
historical aspects of the IDN process. The historical timeline behind the
approval of the IDN Fast Track (implementation) process (which is what the
Board approved, as opposed to the fundamental issue of IDNs per se is
available thru the following presentation by Baher Esmat of ICANN at
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/idns-internet-week-tunis-aug08.pdf`and
via the presentation of James Seng at APNIC 2009 in Beijing at
http://meetings.apnic.net/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/14009/seng-idn-overview.pdf

See also http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/idncwg.htm

For those who are interested in the next major upcoming change why not take
a look now at the historical process behind the new gTLDs at
http://www.icann.com/en/topics/new-gtlds/history-en.htm

Best wishes.

Tracy

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:01 PM, David Goldstein <
goldstein_david at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> So by your reckoning Stephane, the last 6 years were wasted and the testing
> by ICANN was irrelevant?
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at internatif.org>
> To: David Goldstein <goldstein_david at yahoo.com.au>
> Cc: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Sent: Mon, 2 November, 2009 4:45:00 AM
> Subject: Re: IDN's Internationalized Domain Names - A New  Era
>
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 09:05:42PM -0700,
> David Goldstein <goldstein_david at yahoo.com.au> wrote
> a message of 112 lines which said:
>
> > Giving people whose language is not Latin-based the ability to use
> > domain names is very significant.
>
> So what? Nobody said the opposite. The point is that it is old news,
> it is now six years since the introduction of IDN. ICANN's
> announcement means very little.
>
> > I guess many of those whose languages are Latin-based can't think
> > outside the square and appreciate this.
>
> Again, what is the relationship with what I wrote?
>
> > Whether you like ICANN or not, there was a lot of work done to
> > ensure IDNs were safe and secure to use.
>
> There was a lot of work for IDN. IETF people for the standardization,
> software authors for the libraries, registry employees for the
> introduction of IDN in their registry, such as .JP or .CN (both were
> among the first). ICANN did nothing significant except spreading FUD
> about mysterious "dangers" and holding expensive meetings.
>
>
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