Re: [idn] Proposal for creation of new gTLD for IDN

[John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com>]

I'm not sure I fully understand it, but this proposal seems to
confuse "language/encoding used" with "country in which language
is spoken".  By doing so, it causes:

	* problems for users of other (presumably still
	non-ASCII) languages in that country, 
	
	* worse problems for countries with several
	official/national languages, 
	
	* and still worse problems for countries whose companies
	and organizations wish to participate in international
	e-commerce or discourse and hence to exhibit multiple
	languages to the rest of the world.

Or am I missing something?

    john



--On Thursday, 06 July, 2000 17:46 +0900 Deuk-Kul Jang
<dkjang@smind.co.kr> wrote:

> Hallelujah    Hallelujah    Hallelujah
> 
> 
> This proposal is concerning an Internet Draft for an encoding
> for IDN
> (http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-dkjang-idn-00.txt),
> that represent a method for internationalized domain name as
> below.
> 
> -------------------------------
>      When a multilingual domain name is converted to the
>      traditional one. 1. The 'multilingual key' is included
>      automatically in converted names. 2. The 'language key'
>      is included automatically in the converted names.
>...