However, if in the meantime ICANN had a bunch of IDN domains redirecting to www.icann.org, why not? Wouldn't do much good but also wouldn't harm. They could even have a localized domain per each supported language and make it so that you get a different language for the same page depending on the domain you used in the URL - that's mostly a matter of support in the CMS. Then, of course, they would have to make sure that all of that continues to work properly over time.
You are certainly right that they could build language specific mini-sites, but that is a lot more work than just pointing a few A records at the existing site. Once again, with our limited time and resources we really need to concentrate on issues that are important and achievable and avoid distractions and fluff. Regards, John Levine, john.levine@standcore.com Standcore LLC