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Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed

  • From: Iljitsch van Beijnum
  • Date: Mon Jul 18 11:05:08 2005 
On 18-jul-2005, at 16:42, Brad Knowles wrote:
The registry customers don't pay the bills of ICANN and the governments who maintain the ccTLDs.
Governments? You have some strange ideas about ccTLDs.
The registries pay those bills, and they get their money (in part) from those who would intentionally create confusing domain names of the sort you would want to prevent.
That's why it's good that browser vendors are keeping an eye on this.
You seem to have the technical side down reasonably well. What you need to do now is to work on putting that process into the correct place within the context of Internet governance,
Let the lawyers rule the world? Yeah right, that will help.

When the "governance" types get it right, sure, set up all the browsers to take their cue. In the mean time, let's do what works today. Ultimately, the user should be in control (like I am with my named.root file) but the vendors should set good defaults to help the users who can't do this themselves.