ALL incumbent registries want to extend their TLD assignment into 100
new scripts. Including especially the ccTLDs. Note that China did not
wait for ICANN, it created the Chinese character version of .cn all by
itself. What registry operator in their right mind would not want to do
that? 

The issue for us, and for icann as a whole, is the trade iff between
usability and competition/diversity.

Dr. Milton Mueller
Syracuse University School of Information Studies
http://www.digital-convergence.org
http://www.internetgovernance.org

>>> Danny Younger <[log in to unmask]> 05/09/06 8:43 >>>
Re:  "VeriSign would no longer be entitled to claim
that it should own the transliterations of the .com in
the other language strings, especially those spoken by
huge populations"

VeriSign is not the only organization claiming such
entitlement.  Please see the PIR document "Principles
for the Foundation of Top Level IDNs" that puts
forward similar arguments.  PIR has cited brand
fragmentation, security and stability issues,
registrar disenfranchisement, regulatory burdens,
intellectual property concerns and internet
fragmentation worries in defense of their view with
respect to managing all .org IDN transliterations.

http://www.icann.org/topics/idn/pir-idn-principles-23jun06.pdf

Was this document discussed in Amsterdam?

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com