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

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

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, 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
>