Hello,

for the blog post, the guy who is complaining, is also wanting to sell those domain names ,that is interesting. I see also the same "keyboard polemic" as people cannot type those idn (why do you want to access to website with idn which it means that content is probably in language that you don't speak?). I don't see the problem for people who wants idn in their native languages. in countries like china or japan, there are already idn in second level, and people got familiar to that. I didn't hear about issues when such domain were introduced.
what kind of capacity building program do you suggest? 
maybe it is worthy to read the last report from IDN working group ? http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/idn-implementation-working-team-report-final-03dec09-en.pdf

Rafik


2009/12/30 Fouad Bajwa <[log in to unmask]>
Hi,

I have recently been following IDN discussions at:
http://www.idnforums.com/forums and
http://www.webmasterworld.com/domain_names/3774259.htm as well reading
this article which is also in discussion at other lists and would be
of great interest to us in NCUC/NCSG: De-Latinisation of the Web:
http://blog.collins.net.pr/2009/12/de-latinisation-of-web.html

Is it possible that there will be a more chaotic situation around the
IDN and its market ecosystem with the lack of understanding of IDNs
and knowledge on the simple user's part?

There is another step that comes as a corporate social responsibility
since ICANN calls titles itself as a corporation that ICANN or its
partners and affiliates may have to invest a great deal in capacity
building across the world or pass this duty on to its registrars and
their registries.

This maybe part of an emerging issue for NCUC to look into and
dedicate some time and discussion for recommendations/advice to ICANN.

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Regards.
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Fouad Bajwa