The word "giggle" seems offensive for the Arabia Saoudia Government. Or may be you also are affiliated to the GNI? <a href="http://www.globalnetworkinitiative.org">http://www.globalnetworkinitiative.org</a>. The most prestigious HR organisations declined to join this internationalization lobby. The reason why is that language and freedom of speech technical support (as in this WG) is first about respecting peoples, and their national laws and cultures. <br>
<br>This being said, "babelnames" is (i.e. names with an ASCII meaningfull, unlawfull or TMed text, is an issue discussed by france@large for a long (cf. old <a href="http://xn--jean-franois-sdb.jefsey.com">http://jean-françois.jefsey.com</a> page which quotes it). <br>
<br>I quickly went through the france@large archives:<br><br>- Jaap, you may remember that two years ago you were conveyed (as ICANN) by JFC to attend a meeting in Paris over internationalization where he rose this very issue for IDNA. You are reported as having considered the issue as negligible. <br>
<br>- John, during the ITU/UNESCO meeting in Geneva where you would have implied that MINC ITLD nameservers' IP addresses might be unsecure, JFC rose the babelnames issue with WIPO. This lead to a direct discussion where JFC reported ICANN/IPC concerns. Some others on this list where present.<br>
<br>This is one of the reasons why france@large demands an end to end Zone Manager full control on the DN international added value. As you know france@large is a candidate to the delegation of ".fr" and a member of the ".fra" initiative (<a href="http://a-fra.org">http://a-fra.org</a>). We fully support the AFNIC position (which is required by the French law) about the "termes fondamentaux" which cannot be registered, either as foul or as reserved names ( <a href="http://www.afnic.fr/obtenir/chartes/fondamentaux">http://www.afnic.fr/obtenir/chartes/fondamentaux</a>). These terms prefixed by "xn--" should not be permitted.<br>
<br>The babelTLDs are also a serious international issue which was in particular discussed by Norway.<br><br>Rémy Renardin.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/13 Jaap Akkerhuis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jaap@nlnetlabs.nl">jaap@nlnetlabs.nl</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The next message "Saudis ban 'lewd' license plates"<br>
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7995865.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7995865.stm</a><br>
made me giggle. Of course, IDNA will have to deal<br>
with this problem as well :-).<br>
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jaap<br>
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