Re: [ga] IDN evaluation by ICANN (Was: Sponsorship of IGF Workshops

[Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> In the (unlikely) case that some people read Baptista's messages, I
> want to emphasize that I do not find any ICANN text mentioning "listing
> IDN TLDs as A RRs" (which would be a strange idea, indeed).
>
> The current plan is here:
>
> http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-19jun07.htm
>  

Stephane - your right.  I'm sorry about that.  I was wrong.  The URL we 
should also refer to is the plan itself.

http://www.icann.org/topics/idn/idn-evaluation-plan-v2%209.pdf

A-labels ~ A-RRs + Speed reading ^ old age is my only excuse.  Thank God 
your there to hold my hand during these trying years.

If thats the case, then this experiment is a bot of nonsense.  Its well 
know any zone can carry up to 70 million zone records  So i'm a bit 
purplexed as to why they consider this some lofty experiment.  It is not 
that.  The inclusive name space under the TLDA carrys some 10,000 zone 
records.  Increasing the zone is not going to do any harm.  The chinese 
have already proven that IDNs work - so have the arabs who run their own 
version of the ICANN root.  And their are a number of experiments in 
other portions of namespace doing much of the same.

The warning language in the text is a bit bogus.  I wonder how much 
money icann is spending on this effort. Which we in the inclusive name 
space have already proven viable.  It amazes me the amount of resources 
dedicated to this nonsense.

I support this experiment.  Question is - who will they be listing.  The 
chinese?  The arabs?  i-DNS.net?  If were talking NS-RRs then this 
little experiment is the one to watch at icann this year.  See who joins 
up.  Lets see if they give control of these slots to the right full 
owners - or end up screwing up and making value judgements on other 
peoples property.

Great fun ... thanks Stephanee,
joe baptista

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