Paul Hoffman <paul dot hoffman at vpnc dot org> wrote:
Take the past two day's of press coverage for ICANN, for example. They are being lauded for making the domain name system usable in other scripts as if this was their doing. Nothing in ICANN's press releases pointed out that literally tens of thousands of hours of volunteer time had been spent by the IETF over the past decade to make this work.
Indeed, the top new item on today's English Wikipedia page reads: "The Internet regulator ICANN approves plans to allow Unicode top-level domains for the first time." Thus not only does ICANN get the credit, but "Unicode" continues to be used to mean "non-Latin-script."
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