Vint,
I don't think I know any longer, if I ever did, what IDN means.
Alternatives to Unicode were proposed during the IETF IDN WG lifetime, both
as a single normative reference, and as a normative reference.
Likewise an intermediate tables redefinition of Unicode, mentioned in my
last
Are there operational issues to attempt to make this thread remotely on
point for NANOG? Probably not. Its just bits, and whether the bits are all
0x000 or quasi-random distributions between 0x000 and 0x177 is water under
somebody else's bridge. The constraint-space is solve in applications
it's enough for me that they're going to do it no matter what you (or i) say,
and that they're doing it responsibly (without any namespace pollution). if
ORSN is afraid war is going to break out somewhere and that ICANN might delete
the ccTLD's for countries that are part of the axis of
Bill,
Have you got an opinion on .mm? Last December (when Vint and I did exchange
notes on getting India to allow relief workers into the Andaman and Nicobar
Islands, and some British embassy in Baghdad guy who wanted to get .iq for
the Occupation regime-de-jour) it so happened that all their
For those who care about excesses of zeal, the Elashi brothers (operators
as well as sponsor delagees of .iq) of someplace in Texas, were charged with
giving money to Hamas or a charity linked to Hamas, and sending a PC to
Syria,
and parts of a PC -- perhaps a mouse pad -- to Libya.
Bill,
I forgot to mention that the idiot Brit who wanted .iq was going to run
it -- all of it -- off of generators from inside the Green Zone.
I don't know if my notes made a bit of difference, but I advised that
ICANN not redel and open the adverse redel can unnecesarily.
I'm not sure if I
And they did violate US laws in the US.
An export regulation, one normally punished by a fine.
Ah well, maybe they will get deported when they get released from prison,
just like their wives.
There is an interesting register of export violaters, and quite a few are
foreign nationals, and
David,
Before turning to your certainty that laws are self-explanitory and not
nuanced, I should mention soething I forgot.
The Elashi case rattled the Export Controls Defense bar, because the Elashis
didn't actually send anything to Libya, their buyer was some computer broker
in Malta, and
I should have made my comment more specific: what is the problem with
single namespace without ccTLDs and without per-country exceptions?
Thank you for asking. Harald Alvestrand and I had just this conversation
during the IETF IDN WG lifetime, about the point where the Chinese (CN,
TW,
