Jefsey, you paint an interesting picture of an alternate universe. As part of painting that picture, you do describe some properties our users would like to have. However these are not the only priorities. I don't think you discuss anything new; I think the goals you considered were also considered during IDN discussions, addressing discussions, etc. However there were other goals like security, simplicity, deployability that conflict with your goals. We came to various consensuses that balanced these conflicting goals. I recommend that you spend some time trying to understand these conflicts and why particular decisions were made. At least to the extent that I understand your goals, I don't think the decisions stem from a lack of understanding of internationalization, globalization, localization or multi-lingualism. As best I can tell, people understood the issues involved and made reasonable tradeoffs. These may not be the tradeoffs you want. The weighting of various goals may even be somewhat wrong, but for the most part I don't think the decisions stem from a lack of understanding of the issues. --Sam _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf