Stop me if I've misunderstood...

[Gervase Markham]

On 08/07/09 23:16, Marie-France Berny wrote:
> Gervase,
> Mark gives a very fair account of the Unicode sub-problem he faces. The
> same as you gave a very fair account of the UI sub-problem you are
> concerned about. However, prior to addressing sub-problems we need to
> address the main problem. The main problem is that:
>
> - (1) none of the existing tools sets (browsers, protocols, codes,
> procedures, applications, IDNA2003, etc. ) is prepared to answer the
> demands of the linguistic diversity.

I know little of ICANN politics or the relationship of your group to 
them, the IETF, or any other organization whose acronym begins with an 
I, but it seems self-evident to me that the above is not "the main 
problem", at least not for this group. We are not here to boil the sea.

Life is imperfect. Unicode is imperfect. The DNS is not capable of 
representing all words in Latin-script languages, let alone words in all 
the other scripts. I can't have www.O'Markham.org. If there is an 
expectation from some language communities that every single word they 
can think of to type in can become a valid and different domain name, 
then they will be disappointed, just as the English and other 
Latin-using language communities have been for the past 30+ years. If 
that makes them go off and form a separate Internet, there's little we 
can do about it apart from tell them they have unrealistic expectations.

Gerv