On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 02:03:31PM -0800,
IAB Chair <iab-chair(_at_)iab(_dot_)org> wrote
a message of 116 lines which said:
The IAB has issued a statement entitled "The interpretation of rules
in the ICANN gTLD Applicant Guidebook".
This is a very bad statement. When work started on document
draft-liman-tld-names, there were no IDN TLD in the root and some
expressed concern that the digits (in their Punycode encoding) could
create a problem. Also, draft-liman-tld-names was disputed because it
created new rules (explicitely forbidding all-digits TLDs) without a
good reason. The document has fallen in disinterest and I'm quite
surprised to see it resurfacing now: we have IDN TLDs in the root for
a long time and the sky has not fallen.
I hope that ICANN will ignore this statement.
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