Danny Younger ha scritto:
While everyone recognizes the need to move forward and expeditiously with the implementation of IDNs, shouldn't we be considering the implications of "unfair advantage" on the marketplace?
I think there is a cultural disconnect here. The Chinese, the Arabs, the Russians and all the other peoples who are eager to start using IDN TLDs are not particularly interested in competition (in fact, some of these countries have economies which are still heavily nationalised, especially in the telco sector). Removing one disadvantage that stifles diffusion of the Internet in their countries - the inability to use in URLs their script only - is much more important to them than any possible distortion in market competition, and I would find it unfair for ICANN to reverse this priority order. -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------