Re: [ga] IDN Update -- Important New Developments

[jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Andy and all,

  Good point.  

-----Original Message-----
>From: Andy Gardner <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Oct 4, 2007 12:59 PM
>To: ga the DNSO <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [ga] IDN Update -- Important New Developments
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>On Oct 4, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Danny Younger wrote:
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>> http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg03927.html
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>They seem to be talking about "IDN ccTLD's associated with the ISO  
>3166-1 two-letter codes". AFAIA, ISO-3166-1 is all ASCII characters,  
>so how can non-ASCII be associated with it?
>
>Do they mean some sort of translation into native languages of those  
>ISO-3166-1 codes?
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>Does this limit IDN ccTLD's to 2 lcharacters? Considering you can  
>form a full sentence in CJK with 2 characters, isn't that biased  
>against languages that can't?
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>Cheers,
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