Re: Layer 2 and "idn identities" (was: Re: [idn] what are the IDNidentifiers?)

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

At 8:25 PM -0500 11/30/01, DougEwell2@cs.com 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