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

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dr. Baptista and all,

  You and I as well as any intelegent observers of ICANN, knows
that nonsense is, and always has been a stalwert of ICANN.  Good
marketing and PR can work wonders in selling the ignorant any
nonsense.  So it has been with ICANN's PR machine.  However
some of us are wise enough and have the knowledge of history
to recgonize nonsense when we read it or hear it.  Newbe's don't,
unless they really do a their homework very well.

  Old P.T. Barnum discribed it this way:
"If you put horse manure in a fancy bottle, and tell women it is good for
their hair well enough, they will line up for miles to buy it."

Kinda like the recent iphone situation by AT&T.

  Anyway, from where I sit this is intentional deceptive marketiing/PR,
and ICANN should be above that sort of nonsense, as the after all
are a Public servicer corp.

As always, thank you Dr. Baptista for sharing your wisdom with
us.

Joe Baptista wrote:

> 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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Regards,

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