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I await ICANN's response to the Venusian amabassadors' demand that
their five dimensional connection matrix skunk literature be
incorporated in the DNS to participate in the Interplanetary
Internet offering the dimensionally limited humanoids with the
soup to sublimate. <br>
<br>
I offer this meagre iconic effort as a sign of hope the Internet
is alive and will not obfuscate with "IDN's and no further!"<br>
<br>
;-) <br>
<br>
C<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/02/2022 17:46, Roberto Gaetano
via At-Large wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:0517105C-5E20-4684-B0E3-19D5CAF4196E@gmail.com">My
personal opinion is that IDNs address a real problem of people who
do use a non-latin script and have the legitimate interest to be
able to use their own language and script. If the Internet aims at
being multilingual and provide equal access to everybody, there is
a need to solve the issue of scripts used by different languages -
including Irish fada, because as Michele has explained time and
again there are cases in which a word with fada has a completely
different meaning than the similar one without. So in this case,
spending time and resources by ICANN is in order.
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<div class="">OTOH, my personal opinion is that the use of emoji
is just a vanity problem. People have the right to ask for
vanity solutions, and businesses have the right to produce
“innovation” that addresses this, but the question is why should
ICANN (UASG) devote some of its (scarce) resources to support
this? I think that the only thing that we should care about is
that whatever “innovative” way to make money using the DNS does
not break it.</div>
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<div class="">Cheers,</div>
<div class="">R.</div>
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<div class="">On 20.02.2022, at 17:49, Carlton Samuels via
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<div class="gmail_default">Recall the argument against
emoji characters in a name stems from the fact that
while emoji - and emoji-like - characters are accorded
Unicode subscription, their categorization and the
lack of a single acceptable standard for rendering
them made their consistent interpretation and
resolution 'touchy, at best'. The conclusive advice:
disallowed.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">The IDN taskforce and
Universal Acceptance folks have been grappling with
this for some time now.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">Carlton</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 at
09:09, Michele Neylon - Blacknight via At-Large <<a
href="mailto:at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org"
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">I’ve been *<b
class="">trying</b>* to use a domain name
with a fada (accent) in it both to send a
receive email.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">It has NOT
been going well:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><a
href="https://michele.blog/trying-domains-with-accents-again-idn-domains/"
target="_blank"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://michele.blog/trying-domains-with-accents-again-idn-domains/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">So the
likelihood of this emoji thing working with
email is about slim to none</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">--</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">Mr Michele
Neylon</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">Intl. +353
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target="_blank" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="">https://ceo.hosting/</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span class="">From:
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on behalf of Dev Anand Teelucksingh via
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<b class="">Date: </b>Friday, 18 February
2022 at 15:17<br class="">
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<b class="">Subject: </b>[At-Large] Opera
now lets you ditch boring web links and use
emojis instead</span></p>
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EMAIL]</span></b><span class="">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">Hyperbole
aside, wonder how (or if) emails could
work - Dev Anand</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><br
class="">
<a
href="https://blogs.opera.com/news/2022/02/opera-emoji-links-yat/"
target="_blank"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://blogs.opera.com/news/2022/02/opera-emoji-links-yat/</a><br
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"Are you ready to take emojis to the
next level? How about using emojis for
a website address? Our new partnership
with Yat is helping make this dream
come true, by integrating their emoji
system into our browsers on Windows,
Mac, Android and iOS, as well as in
the <a
href="https://blogs.opera.com/crypto/2022/01/opera-crypto-browser-project-web3/"
target="_blank" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">
Opera Crypto Browser Project</a>.
Long story short, you can now access
emoji-only-based web addresses and
register your unique strings of emojis
as your personal domains.
</span></p>
<p class="">With Opera as the <u class="">first
browser to enable emoji-only based web
addresses</u>, we’re bringing a new
level of creativity to the internet,
letting you navigate the web with
strings of emojis as URLs, instead of
letters and words.</p>
<p class="">This is a major shift in the
way the internet works, and is sign of
the changing times. Thirty-some years
ago, the world wide web was first
launched to the public, but not much has
changed in regards to weblinks, and we
still use .com in our URLs. Now though,
through this integration with Yat, all
you Opera fans can ditch .com, or even
words in general, and make your way to
websites using emojis. It’s new, it’s
easier and certainly a lot more fun.</p>
<p class="">The emojification of Opera is
thanks to <a
href="https://emojis.y.at/"
target="_blank" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">Yat</a>, the
company that allows you to own
personalized strings of emojis. The
emoji-centric integration lets you
easily find yat pages—unique domains
that are generated when you create a yat
from a personalized string of
emojis...."</p>
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