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

["Debbie Garside" <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

JFC wrote:

> - A proposed definition by Debbie Garside ("non-ASCII
> scripts"), Chair of the WLDC

For the record, I am founder member and CEO of The WLDC.  Dr Christian
Galinski of Infoterm is the Chair.

Best

Debbie
www.thewldc.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of JFC Morfin
> Sent: 28 September 2007 10:56
> To: Andy Gardner; ga the DNSO
> Subject: Re: [ga] ICANN, TWNIC Host "Toward the New Era of
> Internet"- IDN Key topic
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> 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:
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> - 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).
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> - 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.
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> 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).
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> 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
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