Re: [political pontification] Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers

2005-09-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere
> 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 applicatio

Re: [political pontification] Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers

2005-09-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere
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 poi

Re: [political pontification] Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers

2005-09-29 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere
> 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, M

Re: [political pontification] Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers

2005-09-29 Thread Tony Li
On Sep 29, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Randy Bush wrote: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Northern Nigeria, and China are not likely to have the same liberal views as, say, the Netherlands or Denmark. Saudi Arabia and China, like some other nations, extensively filter their Internet connection and have created go

[political pontification] Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers

2005-09-29 Thread Randy Bush
> Saudi Arabia, Iran, Northern Nigeria, and China are not likely to > have the same liberal views as, say, the Netherlands or Denmark. > Saudi Arabia and China, like some other nations, extensively filter > their Internet connection and have created government agencies to > protect their society f