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Re: [council] Regarding issues report on IDNs

  • To: "Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [council] Regarding issues report on IDNs
  • From: "Sophia B" <sophiabekele@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:52:12 -0800
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Ok Great..thanks, Bruce.
Sophia


On 20/02/06, Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Hello Sophia,
>
>        - review external influences - e.g alternative roots (both ASCII
> and IDN
>        based), search engines, tld (cctld and gtld) registry
> competition,
>        growth in Internet users that are non-English speaking and users
> that
>        use different character sets.
>
>
> We will not be discussing IDNs in detail as a separate topic, but merely
> identifying that it is an influence on the new gTLD discussion.
>
> Note IDNs in the root would be a type of new gTLD.   Given that there
> are presently no IDNs in the root has led some groups establishing
> alternative roots to provide that function (not necessary compliant with
> the IETF RFCs for IDNs).
>
> Regards,
> Bruce
>



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