On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 02:03:31PM -0800, IAB Chair <iab-chair@xxxxxxx> wrote a message of 116 lines which said: > The IAB has issued a statement entitled "The interpretation of rules > in the ICANN gTLD Applicant Guidebook". This is a very bad statement. When work started on document draft-liman-tld-names, there were no IDN TLD in the root and some expressed concern that the digits (in their Punycode encoding) could create a problem. Also, draft-liman-tld-names was disputed because it created new rules (explicitely forbidding all-digits TLDs) without a good reason. The document has fallen in disinterest and I'm quite surprised to see it resurfacing now: we have IDN TLDs in the root for a long time and the sky has not fallen. I hope that ICANN will ignore this statement. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf