[ga] IDN-admin should be a recommendation, not mandatory.

[maruyama@nic.ad.jp]

FYI,

>Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 19:10:13 +0900 (JST)
>Message-Id: <200303261010.h2QAADu07959@indra.ism.ac.jp>
>To: idn-comments@icann.org
>Subject: IDN-admin should be a recommendation, not mandatory.
>From: maruyama@nic.ad.jp
>
>Dear Sir,
>
>This might be late, but I still want to say:
>
>I think points 2 to 5 should not be made mandatory.  Only point 1
>should be mandatory, but all other points should be recommendations.
>
>In Taipei JET meeting, I heard that the IDN-admin is expected to be
>released as an "Informational RFC".  I strongly against to a proposal
>that ICANN mandates something that are not techinical standards but
>only informational.  Also I have to point out that IDN-admin is still
>in its draft stage.  In additon, JET formally decided that they do not
>ensure effectivity of IDN-amdin to languages other CJK.  Why ICANN
>wants to mandate such ambiguous things?  I think such an approach is
>not consistent with the principle exactly stated in the March 13 ICANN
>document:
>
>:      The deployment of IDNA within existing
>:          top-level domain registries is fundamentally a registry
>:     responsibility, and the registries will be in the best position to
>:   make appropriate implementation decisions themselves, and should have
>:    the freedom to make adjustments as experience dictates.
>
>I would like to ask the Board to take my point into account.
>
>Best resgards.
>
>----
>(Mr.) NaoMASA Maruyama
>Japan Network Information Center(JPNIC)
>maruyama@nic.ad.jp
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