Kerry -
I'm sure there are a lot of people (including me) who would be quite happy
to use the 'unintelligible' branch of the DNS for various purposes.
The problem is not the lack of good ideas, it is the lack of a mechanism for
implementing them.
David Schutt
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Miller
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 6:50 PM
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Subject: [IFWP] Re: opinions & shortsightedness about ICANN, etc.
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It may be worth clarifying that the RFC was not to *re*name
domains, but to extend the naming system. Existing domain
names would simply fall in the default 'ISO-8859-1' zero level
domain.
Two weeks later, I suggested the 'Grndl alternative' that serves the
same principal purpose (of *educating users to the fact that names
are merely names, and have no meaning -- or value -- other than
that which they themselves 'read into' them) although it doesnt do
much for the internationalization aspect. (On second thought, it
might give Czech and Polish nets a real boost!) However, again,
its not a question of renaming; existing 'legible' names will simply
have to tough out the Trademark War (although some kind of
amnesty might be provided by aliasing certain characters, so that a
(possibly contested) mypizzahut registration would appear as
myp#zzahut for some transition period). *New names (and new
trademarks for that matter) are the problematic area, as I see it;
am I wrong?
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