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

[Fouad Bajwa]

Very true Ian, but again, we are getting them now in the developing
world countries. This was announced by ICANN day before yesterday and
so finally they are moving ahead.

I am however very convinced and geared for the fact that this means
further issues with relevance to Internet Governance....

Btw, was just sharing the news I witnessed live :o)

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:
> Fouad wrote
>
>>> a move that is being described as the biggest change to the way the
>>> internet works since it was created 40 years ago.
>
> Very few people who have examined this subject think the Internet was
> created 40 years ago. See
> http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/origins.html
> for an article I wrote when the same group celebrated the "35th
> anniversary".
>
> I think Stephane's comments are relevant. ICANN's tick on IDNs is welcome
> and overdue, but not ground breaking.
>
> The real credit here does not lie with ICANN, but with people like Dr. John
> Klensin, Dr. Konishi (Japan), Prof. Qian (China), Dr. Kenny Huang (Taiwan),
> and Dr. Ko (Korea), James Seng (Singapore), TanTin Wee, many others. And as
> Stephane states, the breakthrough was five years ago, not now.
>
> But spin doctors create popular history and myths propagate.
>
>
>
> On 1/11/09 12:11 AM, "Stephane Bortzmeyer" <bortzmeyer at internatif.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 08:22:33PM +0900,
>>  Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote
>>  a message of 109 lines which said:
>>
>>> The internet regulator ICANN has approved plans to allow
>>> non-Latin-script web addresses,
>>
>> Unicode characters in domain names have been technically approved in
>> 2003 (with the publication of RFC 3490) and installed first in a TLD a
>> few months later (though I do not remember which TLD was the first
>> one). ICANN, as often, is very late here. We see "non-Latin-script web
>> addresses" for many years.
>>
>>> a move that is being described as the biggest change to the way the
>>> internet works since it was created 40 years ago.
>>
>> This is simply ridiculous. More than the creation of the DNS? Or of
>> BGP? Or than the deployment of TCP/IPv4, both non-existent 40 years
>> ago?
>>
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