July 24, 2012
2:57 a.m.
What exactly is there to comment about?
Should we support the ALAC IDN proposal?
Most of the applied for IDN strings are brand names (Google, Amazon, Volkswagen) or generic terms (com, org, website, gossip, food.) I don't see any reason to give them preference over brand names and generic terms in Roman letters. If the proposal were limited to geographic applications (Moscow in Russian, Abu Dhabi in Arabic) I would support it. If it were limited to geographic and non-commercial community applications (Catholic in Arabic and Cyrillic, Rus in Cyrillic) I could probably be persuaded to support it. R's, John