> What is strange, to me, about this discussion is that there is a > way to delay CDN deployment without impacting Korean or > Japanese. It is fairly simple, and does not require that the > IDN WG agree. And I had assumed it would be obvious to everyone. > Specifically, the four NICs simply refuse to register such > names. You try to convince Singapore and other countries with > large Chinese-speaking populations to join them in that > prohibition. You expand on Erin's document, some of Prof > Tseng's notes, and other comments and examples which have been > introduced here to provide other registries cautions about the > problems they could cause by registering such names. And you > try to convince ICANN to prohibit those names in gTLDs. From > the perspective of this WG, that is a policy move, made in > policy forums. The fact that the WG provides a _mechanism_ for > encoding CDNs does not imply that any registry need _permit_ > CDNs. And it seems to me that, at this late date and given the > overlapping Japanese and Korean issues, that may be your most > efficient way forward on this particular problem. > > regards, > john > >
After reading all the email exchanges lately concerning the TC<->SC issue, I must admit that this part of John's email is the most constructive. It reminds of the Chinese saying: 塞翁失马，焉知非福 Which is literally translated as: "A man who lost his horse is neither fortune nor misfortune." or roughly translated to mean: "What ever will be... will be." Thanks, Ben
