Re: [ICANN-EU] Fwd: Re: European ML

[jeanette@medea.wz-berlin.de]

Hi,

> To all.
> For you rinformation these are excepts of the mail I received from
> Dr. Tan Tin Wee from MINC. I think that issues like the support of
> nordic, german, greek, russian, french, spanish, gaelic aplhapbets
> are of interest to the european culture, and thet we share with our
> far east friends.
> 
> I would be interested in knowing what our 7 european candidates
> are thinking about multilingual Domain Names and the slowliness
> of IEFT and ICANN in technically (?) and politcally (?) implementing
> them.

I fully support the introduction of multilingual character sets. It 
should  be up to the domain name holders to decide upon the 
audience & reach of their respective sites. In a way, the same 
argument holds for the language chosen. 
Are you suggesting that the IETF deliberately hampers the 
introduction of multilingual characters sets? I don't think so. As far 
as I know, there have been several proposals competing for 
standardization. Harald Alvestrand is the expert on this topic 
though....

Btw, as a result of growing numbers of participants and the 
increasing economic importance of protocols, the IETF's standard 
setting process has considerably slowed down in other areas too.  

jeanette