[governance] Re: IDN's Internationalized Domain Names - A New Era of Internet and Local Languages

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

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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