see comments below: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:00 AM, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
Karl - I have no idea what your going on about - as usual. In fact the
site you are a looking at is the English default site for Peking University. The site seen at http://xn--1lq90ic7fzpc.xn--fiqs8s/ is the same as
It's the same site as http://xn--1lq90ic7fzpc.cn which you can resolve perfectly well from the real root.
Real root? What's that? Are you implying the China root is any less real then the IANA root. Sorry John - but when 300 million people can resolve TLDs not found in the IANA (real ??? root) using the China root I think thats as real as it gets - don't you.
I agree that ICANN needs to get its IDN act together,
It's too late for China. In fact I doubt China will even apply to ICANN for TLDs they have been operating now for over 6 years. Their very REAL root experiment has proven to them they don't need the added baggage ICANN brings to the table.
but the nonsense about "alternative" roots is really tired.
It never gets tiresome. It is however very inconvenient to the ICANN propaganda machine. I agree with that. cheers joe baptista -- Joe Baptista www.publicroot.org PublicRoot Consortium ---------------------------------------------------------------- The future of the Internet is Open, Transparent, Inclusive, Representative & Accountable to the Internet community @large. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Office: +1 (360) 526-6077 (extension 052) Fax: +1 (509) 479-0084 Personal: www.joebaptista.wordpress.com