The past week
For the past 10 days I've been in Stockholm, where we managed to get to the end of the IDNAbis WG agenda, which is rather a big deal for several reasons:
- domain names (text labels in the DNS) may now be written in scripts supported subsequent to the issuance of version 3.1 of Unicode,
- the email weenies (who caused this whole mess by insisting that they'd never, ever, fix addressing in SMTP) can finish fixing local and remote addressing for text labels which contain characters outside of the {a-z,A-Z,0-9,-} set,
- the Unicadettes (who caused their whole mess in ways too numerous to enumerate) can go off and dither about Emojis and Klingon and stop using the IETF to tell language communities that they (the language communities) don't know what they (the language communities) are talking about when they (the language communities) talk about how they (the language communities) write their (the language communites) languages in their (the language communities) scripts, and
- the ICANN Staff and {PRC, RF, ...} governments and {Verisign, Verisign, ...} for-profit internet exploits can cease to dither about what rules apply to text labels that go into the IANA root, and seriously collide over issues like anti-trust vs literacy.
Mercifully, we finished on Monday, so I was not the minutes taker of record for the 2nd day of work. I also traveled to Dortmund and then on to Geneva and back to Stockholm to finish off the seven-elapsed days of meetings and intra-Yurp travel.
On the way home there was no cloud cover over Greenland, so I saw ice and rock, to my heart's content.
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