ICANN PR campaign

Vint Cerf vint at google.com
Mon Jun 30 17:08:55 CEST 2008


frank can we preserve your data for future reference somehow?

On Jun 30, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Cary Karp wrote:

> Quoting Frank Ellermann:
>
>> Hi, I think some folks here might be also interested in ICANN's
>> latest PR campaign:  http://idn.icann.org/Special:Recentchanges
>>
>> If you don't see it, they deleted the IDNAbis page on their IDN
>> wiki.  I guess I had invested about 200 hours in that project,
>> documenting the IDNAbis history (+ related RFC and drafts) from
>> 2007-10 until the day before yesterday.
>
> The wiki at http://idn.icann.org is intended for one purpose only,  
> and that is to enable Net users to test the response of their  
> applications environments to a-labeled TLDs. There is an article in  
> the wiki that provides a brief introduction to technical topics  
> that might weigh into that action, including a link to the IDNAbis  
> resource page dynamically maintained http://stupid.domain.name/ 
> idnabis/ .
>
> It is hard to imagine what the reaction would have been if ICANN  
> unilaterally decided that the IDNwiki was also an appropriate venue  
> for the technical discussion of the IDNAbis revision, which is  
> entirely in the IETF's purview, and for which the IETF is surely  
> more than capable of providing any discussion forum it feels  
> necessary.
>
> It might therefore be worth mentioning that the deletion of the  
> separate article on IDNAbis was preceded by a request for  
> commentary about that proposed action, to which only one single  
> contribution was made during close to two weeks, by the only person  
> who had presented material in the article.
>
> /Cary
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