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Re: Mixing of characters
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> while this is not strictly a technical issue, I see difficulty with getting
> ICANN to accept the insertion of numerous non-ASCII domains in the root
> nameservers at the same time as there is a very restrictive policy for
> inserting ASCII domains.
>
> This means that if the DNS we want to internationalize is the same as the
> normal DNS, it's a requirement that internationalization can occur under
> the ASCII top-levlel domain labels.
I think this is grossly unfair. Why should the technical implementation be
restricted by what ICANN prefer to do?
Beside, I remember our charter does not define who or what if any
government bodies should take care of I18N Domain Names.
-James Seng