According to this article in IHT , those who want deployment of IDNs now are “political gambits”. Cerf said that the technical side is not yet ready and thus the deployment of IDNs should be done very carefully.
I agree to the technical aspects. However, the next question is of course: “when will it be ready for deployment ?”. Can the ICANN community commit to a deadline it will meet ? If not, ICANN should not blame those “political gambits” who wish to go forward because they just cannot afford to wait anymore.
There is a bad habit in the ICANN community that it should set the agenda and the rest of the world should just follow. Trouble is of course that the “rest of the world” represents several billion people, most of them ignoring the very existence of ICANN and even more its legitimity to set the world agenda. ICANN sounds more and more like Major Tom in David Bowie’s Space Oddity: “Ground Control to Major Tom, your circuit’s dead, there’s something wrong. Can you hear me Major Tom ?”
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