Hi, On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 01:45:00PM -0400, John C Klensin wrote: > I've got the same reaction to "IDN technical restrictions". I'm > not aware of any significant ones unless one has a desire to > use, e.g., symbols, as domain name labels. And, as far as > "visual ambiguities" are concerned, I'd love to know what he > proposes Having just sat through his presentation at the IGF meeting, I think what he proposes is roughly, "Change math so that trees don't have a single root." He has just advocated "multiple roots", has asserted repeatedly that ICANN controls the entire DNS and that the DNS is therefore controlled by the US, and that IDN is not enough because. Happily, we have open-root (perhaps amusingly, available from http://open-root.eu/), which is prepared to offer you this alternate-root, not-IDN-but-internationalized, all-works-magically solution. I have a great deal of respect for M. Pouzin's contributions to the technical development of the Internet. I'm afraid, however, that I can't tell the difference between what he just proposed and a barker's proposal for the Medicinal Compound, "efficacious in every case". Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx