Doug Ewell wrote: > 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." If we got all the credit we deserved for IDN they'd be burning in effigy or worse world-wide... > -- > Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org > RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ http://is.gd/2kf0s > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf