IDN Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk As an example, I don't think it is desirable to restrict the use of Hebrew to Israel or .il, whichever, nor do I like the idea that users here will not be able to use other languages, although there is the practical problem that the registrar must be able to read them.
Jony > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Behalf Of Paul Hoffman / IMC > Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 5:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Layer 2 and "idn identities" (was: Re: [idn] > what are the IDN identifiers?) > > > At 8:25 PM -0500 11/30/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Sorry, but I'm afraid that's not necessarily true either. ".com", > >".net", ".org" do not necessarily denote locations in the United > >States, nor locations that are intended to be accessed in > English. It > >is entirely reasonable to expect people to want to register "<Han > >character><Han > >character><Han character>.com" and now our tagging scheme has fallen > >character>apart. > > Of course, it goes much further than com/net/org. Most of the > registrations in the smaller ccTLDs that are selling their names are > from the US. > > And then there is the question of assuming the script that is used in > the new gTLDs... > > And then there is the question of what it means to be "in" a > country... > > --Paul Hoffman, Director > --Internet Mail Consortium > > >
