Re: [ga] On Its Way: One of the Biggest Changes to the Internet

[jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Chris and all,

  I believe your point is correct on a number of levels.  
However the "Touchy-Feely" social science folks have been
screaming for multilingulisim of several years in Domain 
names as well as TLD's.  Frankly as a matter of international
commerce I can't see such as financially viable.  From
a "Intra-national" point of view I can see some intrinsic
value and/or viable use.

  I wonder when Sanscrit Domains and TLD's will be supported?
For that matter, why were they left out at this point in time?
Seems intently discrimitory to me.  I do hope ICANN intends
to support sanscrit Domain names and TLD's in the near future,
lest they again wish to violate several UN resolutions as well
as the MOU.  Vint or Paul can you provide any answer to these
questions?  

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Prophet Partners Inc." <Domains@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Oct 10, 2007 7:59 PM
>To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ga] On Its Way: One of the Biggest Changes to the Internet
>
>
>"Next Monday, 15 October 2007, Internet users around the globe will be able 
>to access wiki pages with the domain name example.test in 11 test 
>languages - Arabic, Persian, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Russian, 
>Hindi, Greek, Korean, Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil.
>The wikis will allow Internet users to establish their own subpages with 
>their own names in their own language. The evaluation is being done in the 
>11 languages of the Internet communities that have shown the most interest 
>in moving IDNs from concept to reality.
>
>The full introduction of IDNs will mean that people can write the whole of a 
>domain name in the characters used to write their own language. Presently 
>you can only use these characters before the dot, so .com, .net, .org and 
>the like can only be written in characters from basic Latin. IDNs will 
>change this so that literally tens of thousands of characters will be 
>available to the world."
>
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>
>Some thoughts in no particular order:
>
>1) This sounds like the death of TLDs like .asia before they even get 
>launched.
>2) Complete usability tests will need to cover additional protocols such as 
>HTTPS, FTP and SMTP.
>3) Safeguards should be created to prevent the creation of look-alike 
>variations of TLDs that will be exploited by cyber criminals. IMO, a 
>significant number of Internet users not aware of IDN TLDs, would fall prey 
>to phishing attempts from a domain using .cöm (umlaut) or .cá (acute accent) 
>or .dê (circumflex accent).
>
>Sincerely,
>Ted
>Prophet Partners Inc.
>http://www.ProphetPartners.com
>http://www.Premium-Domain-Names.com
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "GNSO.SECRETARIAT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 5:27 AM
>Subject: [ga] On Its Way: One of the Biggest Changes to the Internet
>
>
>
>[To: council[at]gnso.icann.org; liaison6c[at]gnso.icann.org]
>[To: ga[at]gnso.icann.org; announce[at]gnso.icann.org]
>[To: regional-liaisons[at]icann.org]
>
>http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-09oct07.htm
>
>  MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
>and Numbers will launch an evaluation of Internationalized Domain Names
>next week that will allow Internet users to test top-level domains in 11
>languages.
>
>Read more!
>-- 
>Glen de Saint Géry
>GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
>gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
>http://gnso.icann.org
>
>

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