Fwd: [council] Re: Regarding issues report on IDNs from PAF

[Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Patrik Fältström <paf@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 5 februari 2006 14.17.16 EST
> To: Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: GNSO Council <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John Klensin <john- 
> ietf@xxxxxxx>, Cary Karp <ck@nic.museum>
> Subject: Re: [council] Re:  Regarding issues report on IDNs
>
> On 5 feb 2006, at 19.33, Avri Doria wrote:
>
> > Even the questions that PAF asks are dependent on the current  
> > thinking about the technology and if there was creative work being  
> > on the research and engineering for IDN, we might have different  
> > questions to answer.
> (I know my messages are not accepted by the GNSO mailing list  
> exploder, but please forward if you want to.)
> If you start with the questions you want to ask, and some  
> requirements, I can let you know what the technology say about it.
> For example, wether you want (technical) guarantees that the same  
> registrant have the domain name example.foo and example.<idn- 
> version-of-foo>. Or is it a requirement that those two domains can  
> be managed by two different registrants?
> As long as that is not resolved, there is simply no way technical  
> community can help.
> > Unfortunately, as interesting as the IAB draft is, it doesn't, to  
> > my mind, do much to indicate what work will be done to try and  
> > figure out solutions, maybe even creative solutions, that take the  
> > very real political realities into account.
> Can you please list what those "very real politicla realities" are?  
> If you do, I can make sure the technical community do have a look  
> at it. This is exactly what I talk about when I ask for what  
> questions you have and what the answer is.
>     Patrik