Re: [ga] Internationalized Domain Names deployed

[eric@hi-tek.com]

No,

It is completely on topic for us.
And while it may be an issue for communities those communities should
follow International Standards.
Isolationism breeds contempt and contempt breeds violence and mistrust.
Japan, China and the EU are finding this out the hard way as did the US
and
USSR.
Until you have something better than ICANN you better use it to help
people work
together - globally.

e

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 03:19:52PM +0200,
>  Vittorio Bertola <vb@bertola.eu.org> wrote
>  a message of 31 lines which said:
>
> > Which brings me to the issue that nobody has ever decided whether,
> > say, the current owner of liberte.com should have any priority right
> > on libertè.com.
>
> It is a very interesting issue but I do not think it is possible to
> get an international answer. People in France and in Sweden, for
> instance, have different expectations when Unicode characters are not
> available. French-speaking people are typically more lax about
> composed characters.
>
> AFNIC's Board decided that two labels of the same bundle (for instance
> cafe and café) must be registered only to the same registrant. We will
> register IDN that way.
>
> Do note that it requires a table of variants, which involves some
> heated discussions about the semantics of the various characters.
>
> > (I think he should, otherwise we're going to see plenty of
> > disputes.)
>
> Anyway, it is a matter to be settled at a national level. Completely
> off-topic for ICANN.
>
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