Re: [wg-c] CONSENSUS CALLS -- THIS IS IT

["Milton Mueller" <mueller@syr.edu>]

---- Original Message -----
 At 11:29 AM 4/11/00 -0400, Jonathan Weinberg wrote:

 >PROPOSED ROUGH CONSENSUS ITEM NUMBER ONE
>
> The initial rollout should include a range of top level domains,
 > from open TLDs to restricted TLDs with more limited scope.


YES


>PROPOSED ROUGH CONSENSUS ITEM NUMBER TWO
>
> Criteria for assessing a gTLD application, subject to current
> technical constraints and evolving technical opportunities,
> should be based on all of the following principles:

YES

>PROPOSED ROUGH CONSENSUS ITEM NUMBER THREE
>
> WG-C recommends that the Names Council charter a working group to
> develop policy regarding internationalized domain names using
> non-ASCII characters.

NO. I reiterate my support for internationalized domain names and
multi-cultural TLDs, but the development of standards for representation of
non-ASCII character sets should be left to the IETF.

--Milton Mueller