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

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Stephane and all,

  My comments in response are interspersed below...

-----Original Message-----
>From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at internatif.org>
>Sent: Oct 31, 2009 8:11 AM
>To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
>Subject: [governance] Re: IDN's Internationalized Domain Names - A New Era of  Internet and Local Languages
>
>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.

ICANN is and has often been very late with inovation such as Unicode.
>
>> 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?

Agreed.  
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