Re: Mixing of characters

[James Seng <jseng@pobox.org.sg>]

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