Doug Ewell wrote:
Paul Hoffman <paul dot hoffman at vpnc dot org> wrote:
Take the past two day's of press coverage for ICANN, for example. They
are being lauded for making the domain name system usable in other
scripts as if this was their doing. Nothing in ICANN's press releases
pointed out that literally tens of thousands of hours of volunteer
time had been spent by the IETF over the past decade to make this work.
Indeed, the top new item on today's English Wikipedia page reads: "The
Internet regulator ICANN approves plans to allow Unicode top-level
domains for the first time." Thus not only does ICANN get the credit,
but "Unicode" continues to be used to mean "non-Latin-script."
If we got all the credit we deserved for IDN they'd be burning in effigy
or worse world-wide...
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Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org
RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ http://is.gd/2kf0s
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