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

[JFC Morfin <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 21:03 27/09/2007, Andy Gardner wrote:
> For the record, not all IDN's have to have non-ASCII characters in 
> the TLD field to be "internationalised".
Dear Andy,
the real point in this is "what do you mean by internationalized"?

To go into more details:

- A proposed definition by Debbie Garside ("non-ASCII scripts"), 
Chair of the WLDC which includes most of the existing experts in that 
area (except Mark Davis who coined the 
globalization=internationalization+localization definition and 
cowrote the RFC 4646 on the complementary "taggization", but Unicode, 
of which he is the President, is represented), is under consideration 
by ISO as a definition and as an incitation to a corresponding normative work.
- I tend to consider that definition as correct. I also tend to agree 
that its use is appropriate to the Legacy US-ASCII Internet that the 
WSIS Tunis deal granted the management to the USA (i.e. ICANN as 
their international network control agency).
- However, I also consider that its NZ/AU/US/CA/UK/NO based attempted 
extension to the entire international digital ecosystem is an absurd 
strategic, economic, and architectural global dominance non-sense. I 
certainly understand the pursued "system lock-in" strategy, but to 
succeed the US product (bandwidth coverage, TCP/IP, English and 
English names) should be technically far in advance. What is not the case.
This is why the emerging need is to comfort the current Internet 
solution, clean its top layers violations (and implement a 
presentation layer), and decide about the new (currently hidden new 
frontier - semantic layer) . This is to happen before the DNS 
semantics are overflowed by the semantic addressing system (you can 
perceive the SAS as a universal virtual DNS, of which terminology, 
folksonomies, keywords, etc. are local addresses).
In order to obtain it, only ICANN now can make IETF accept and move 
ahead - or go elsewhere. Before grassroots take over (Rio was a 
possible date for alternative project announcements, but mid-2008 is 
now more likely - and more technically advanced? If not there could 
be an official Arabic announcement in Cairo (Nov 2008) meeting.
All the best
jfc