ok kids,
we are way off course! this isn't about geography or what TLD means what.
lets stick to labels and how we finish up and push out these drafts.
chair: we await a proposed agenda, please post it ASAP, and while you are
at it -- cut the chatter on the the list and refocus us on the
priority work at hand.
-rick
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
> 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 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
>
