[atlarge-discuss] Re: [ga] Internationalized Domain Names deployed

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Stephane and all former DNSO GA members or other interested parties,

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 06:48:41PM -0700,
>  Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com> wrote
>  a message of 97 lines which said:
>
> > IDN systems that have been in place for a few years now.
>
> Using proprietary techniques. So, it doesn't count. Internet is based
> on open standards.

  I agree that the internet SHOULD be based on open standards.
Commercial in use techniques are defacto standards that
the recent IETF RFC 3490 in respect to IDN.  The internet
is also based on interoperbility as well...

>
>
> > Hence to say it works is a relative conclusion.  And is so,
> > simply because the IETF does not necessarily SET standards
> > for any and all technical processes  for IT technology
>
> Yes, we also have the W3C and some others. But I count as "standards"
> and worthy of consideration only the works produced by open groups,
> not anything coming from a given company.

  I also agree that anything coming for a given company is not
or should not be in and of itself a open standard. However if
in use for sometime and broadly excepted, regardless of it's
origin, current IDN techniques are a defacto standard and
most are interoperable unlike the IETF's RFC 3490 for IDN.
Should those stakeholders be disadvantaged as a result of the
lack of providing a test bed and RFC that does not adequately
provide for interoperability with long existing IDN's currently
registered?

>
> > However the IETF "Approach" is not designed to be interoperable at
> > all with previous working techniques
>
> Of course, there is no reason to support proprietary legacy
> techniques.

Regards,
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Jeffrey A. Williams
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