Re: [ga] ICANN, TWNIC Host "Toward the New Era of Internet"- IDN Key topic

[Andy Gardner <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 27, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Roberto Gaetano wrote:

> I am not saying you are wrong, I am just expressing my opinion,  
> which is
> that the perception of most people, including probably all those  
> who do not
> use latin scripts, would rate differently the addition of a handful of
> diacritical character to the standard latin script a different  
> thing than
> introducing a completely different script.
> You might be "technically" right, insofar a very limited set of  
> extension to
> the standard character set is anyway a progress and formally an  
> IDN, but my
> guess would be that a Japanese would perceive the addition of  
> diacritical
> latin characters to the set as by and large irrelevant.
Totally agree. But shouldn't ICANN who are, according to their PR, a  
"technical coordinating body" make sure their releases are  
"technically" correct?

> Anyway, I hope that at least we agree on the fact that the  
> introduction of
> IDN TLDs would be a much welcome step further. And to the parts of  
> the world
> that will be more impacted by that step, this improvement is far more
> important than the QI of ICANN people.
You have my 100% agreement on that. That was never in question.
> So maybe in our disagreement we might have some common view.
I think our only disagreement is that I think ICANN should release a  
correction to their PR, and you don't. Correct?