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

["Simon Schuster" <significants@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree. For instance, in Hebrew, I'm highly in favor of .שלי and .חדש
and others that are not
simply "transliterations" of the very-much flattened and empty (as far as
pertinent information about the site/classification) com, net, org etc.

What fun it would be for native languages to decide for themselves
what TLD characters would be meaningful and appropriate!

On 9/27/07, Roberto Gaetano <roberto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Andy,
> For the record, I am another one of those idiots who think that a domain
> name is not internationalized if only one part of it is.
> Cheers,
> Roberto
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andy Gardner
> > Sent: 25 September 2007 19:46
> > To: ga the DNSO
> > Subject: Re: [ga] ICANN, TWNIC Host "Toward the New Era of
> > Internet"- IDN Key topic
> >
> >
> >
> > Yes I know that.
> >
> > Show me what part of the press release mentions anything
> > about TLD's rather than IDN in general?
> >
> > The way it's worded, to everyone who's known about IDN's for
> > years, it makes Dr. Twomey look like an idiot.
> >
> > Intentional?
> >
> > They should correct it and post an update, that technically
> > incorrect quote is appearing all over the place.
> >
> >
> > On Sep 25, 2007, at 8:09 AM, Gomes, Chuck wrote:
> >
> > > Andy,
> > >
> > > IDN names at the second-level have been around for quite awhile but
> > > not at the top-level.  The focus now is introducing them at
> > the top-
> > > level so that it is possible to have an IDN.IDN name instead of an
> > > IDN.ASCII name.
> > >
> > > Chuck Gomes
> > >
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> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >> [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andy Gardner
> > >> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:14 AM
> > >> To: ga the DNSO
> > >> Subject: Re: [ga] ICANN, TWNIC Host "Toward the New Era of
> > >> Internet"- IDN Key topic
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Sep 24, 2007, at 5:12 PM, GNSO.SECRETARIAT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> "IDNs are going to change the face of the Internet when
> > >> they arrive -
> > >>> it will give people the chance to register domain names
> > with their
> > >>> names in their languages," Dr Twomey added. "ICANN is about
> > >> to launch
> > >>> a technical evaluation of the impact IDNs will have, and if
> > >> all goes
> > >>> well internationalized domain names could be available
> > sometime in
> > >>> 2008."
> > >>
> > >> When they arrive?
> > >>
> > >> Haven't IDN's been available since 2001?
> > >>
> > >> Who at ICANN is responsible for fact checking these press releases?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
>
>