Danny Younger wrote:
Here's a question for you: "why are non-ASCII users "entitled" to 250 new ccTLDs but are not "entitled" to any IDN gTLDs?" Has the ALAC deliberately chosen to discriminate against the gTLD registry community?
First, the IDNs on fast track are not 250, but an order of magnitude smaller, given the constraints of the fast track. Second, the unfairness comes from the fact that non-ASCII users have now zero TLDs, while the ASCII users have quite a few, and any delay in the introduction of IDN TLDs of any form perpetrates this injustice, which is also a discrimination against the vast majority of the population of the Earth Third, had we a solution for gTLDs that is easy enough to implement like the fast track, ICANN would be glad to push it, and I assume that ALAC would be glad to endorse it. However, just the problems of jurisdiction, authoritativeness, consesnsus of the community, etc. are so hard to solve in a global environment that there is reason to believe that they would take several years. Given point 2, ICANN has decided the lesser evil, ie. to go to an initial implementation limited to a subset of all the possible IDN TLDs, defining strict criteria. This said, do you *really* think that, how some gTLD registries provide services for some ccTLDs, the same thing would not happen with the fast track IDNs? Wanna bet that when we will go to the implementation, we will find also well known names? Cheers, Roberto