[ICANN-EU] Multilingual Domain Names.

[Alf Hansen <aha@uninett.no>]

Hi all,

Jefsey Morfin wrote:
> 
> 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.
> Jefsey Morfin

Multilingual Domain Names are extremely important. The initiatives in
the Asia/ Pacific region and in the Arabic world are important
contributions. In Europe CENTR has also agreed to regard this as an
extremely important issue. IETF is working on the technical challenges,
and in order to speed up their work we should all contribute in a
constructive way. Even if the political pressure is high, there are some
technical issues that have to be solved in order to keep the address
space unique and to ensure interoperability in a multilingual
environment. And IETF is the only institution that can do this.

Politically I think we have a lot to do to learn from each other. In
Europe we must be educated by other regions because we are able to live
with the current situation more easy than others. We have to work
together with our friends in Asia and in the Arabic world and others, to
fully understand the political and technical issues, and to put
political pressure on the technical experts, in order to speed up the
work.

No-one should be tempted to implement premature solutions in a real
operational environment before the IETF has concluded their work.

> 
> I remind you the minc-europe@egroups.com list is dedicated to
> that kind of topcis. To subscribe just send a mail to
> minc-europe-subscribe@egroups.com
> 

Best regards,
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