Re: IETF Internationalised Domain Name mailing list: callingfor more Asia voices

[tinwee@pobox.org.sg]

Dear Harald,
You are correct to warn about divergence.

We are working towards forming a coordination body to 
synchronise each language working group, and to set down basic principles
such as those discussed in this mailing list, eg. minimal changes
to the current system (ie. don't suggest any thing that breaks
current DNS system) etc. etc.

In other words, the coordination body should encourage each
language working group to converge and harmonise with each
other and with IETF. This IETF idn list should also open up
to the opinions of the various language groups.

For example, some country NICs want to have flat TLD "realnames" style
and uk.ac.xxx style of general-to-specific domain names,
and also omission of the "dot", while others have more than
one translation of .com for company for instance.... so there is
a lot of supra-language-group coordination which AP* organisations
will try to carry out.

bestrgds

tin wee



Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> 
> At 20:07 28.01.00 -0800, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
> >>Recently, at a Beijing meeting, key Internet "elders" in the Asia Pacific,
> >>have concluded that to promote such discussions among the various Asian
> >>peoples, we have to allow them to use their own language in the preliminary
> >>stage at least, before requesting them to consolidate their responses
> >>and translate into English, and vice versa.
> >
> >This is wonderful. Please do let this list know of how those discussions
> >are taking place so that those already here who can participate can listen
> >and contribute.
> 
> one word of warning:
> 
> having multiple discussions on multiple lists in multiple languages is a
> Fine Thing, but it is important that in order to agree about when we have
> agreed, we achieve consensus on the mailing list of the working group -
> that is, this one.
> 
> So - those of us who are fluent in multiple languages have a special
> responsibility to partake in these other lists, and make sure that if some
> group favors a particular thing, not only the opinion, but also the
> supporting arguments are presented in this group in full, so that we can
> achieve consensus here based on the best possible understanding of the problem.
> 
> Go for it!
> 
>                          Harald
> 
> --
> Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
> Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no