Re: [idn] report of the straw poll

[Rick H Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

Bill,

first you state that the 36 yes votes represent individuals, later you
state the 14 no votes represent "millions of users," you can't have it
both ways.

you did get one thing orrect, you need to coloess the 14 no votes with
nearly 7 proposals into one single alternative to IDNA.

-rick


On Fri, 25 May 2001, J. William Semich wrote:

> I think we should wrok harder to get consensus, that's all. Among the 14
> are representatives of the interests of many millions of users, working all
> over the world with systems using established protocols based on UTF-8,
> etc. That should be given some weight as well.
>
> I agree it would be a good idea to put forward a single alternative to IDNA
> for consideration ...
>
> Bill
>
> At 09:28 AM 5/25/01 -0700, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
> >At 12:10 PM -0400 5/25/01, J. William Semich wrote:
> >>Paul - The opinions of the tiny subset of 36 members of this WG do not
> >>represent a "vast" majority of anything whatsoever in the truly vast set of
> >>multi-millions of Internet users, systems and application developers, and
> >>connectivity providers.
> >
> >So, what are you suggesting that we do instead? Because the IETF
> >cannot ever get the opinions of even 1% of all Internet users as we
> >develop new Internet protocols, are you saying we should just stop
> >working on them right now? If so, who do you propose should work on
> >Internet protocols? No other standards body polls any significant
> >percentage of Internet users before creating protocols, and no
> >private company does so before it creates its own proprietary
> >protocols. Are you saying that no more protocols should be developed
> >by anyone?
> >
> >--Paul Hoffman, Director
> >--Internet Mail Consortium
> >
> >
> Bill Semich
> President and Founder
> WorldNames, Inc.
> http://www.worldnames.net
> bsemich@worldnames.net
>