CircleID

Paul,
Good to see you back into involvement in the IDN area.

As you may see from the Thank You note that has been placed on the ICANN site, our small group is taking all comments seriously, and plan on responding to each specific proposal, suggestion or comment.

That, in my opinion, is the responsible way to work through a thorny issue of IDNs that no one has taken up in a long time.  Registries like the ones I work with, and the ones that the other members of the group work for, have been dealing with the considerable implementation challenges for IDNs.  The original standards writers did no one any favors by taking a "we only focus on the conversion to Punycode" approach for IDNs.

-Ram