On 04/07/05, Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com <Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com> wrote:
I think that the marketing people are going to win this one. There is no marketable benefit to the ICANN root zone but there are clear advantages for countries using non-Latin alphabets to switch to a root zone that allows for their own language to be used in domain names. Turkey was recently mentioned and that is also a country that uses a non-Latin alphabet.
There is a lot of IDN fun to be had with several competing - and incompatible - technologies, each pushed by rival providers so that there is practically no incentive to interoperate. Some amusingly planted puff pieces, and other clumsy attempts at PR as well .. http://www.circleid.com/article/1074_0_1_0_C/ for example Ignore them and they'll either go the hell away or spend some time fighting against each other and kill each other off. And the public root people can continue using their intranet domains I guess. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)