Mozilla Foundation: "...the problem is mostly the fault of domain name registries and registrars that let people register homographic variants of existing domain names."

Yup. Sounds almost right.

More specifically, this is what you get when test-beds and immature specs are run against production systems. IDN isn't baked yet - not from a policy perspective. Any registry running these things in production systems isn't doing anyone any favors.

Yes, I know Tucows has been selling IDNs since the initial NSI test-bed was announced. It was a bad idea then and I'd be much happier now if we hadn't jumped in as quickly as we did. With that being said, we've got a huge install base to support, so its not like we can simply turn off these domains...that would turn off the internet for a lot of people. Also, we've got a pretty good track record of being very conservative when it comes to implementations like this. I'll have to check with James to specifically find out whether or not we fall on the side of the street that's doing favors for Mozilla or not... :)

Mark Evans: “…a cool wireless device with a built-in MP3 player would find a big audience.”

Close. But no cigar. Awareness of the problem space isn’t quite there…Scoble thinks that Motorola has found the magic. Closer again, but also not there.

None of these gizmo’s make it easy enough. Self-apparent enough.

iPod enough.

I have 26gb of “legit” MP3’s (in other words, I have 26+ gb of MP3’s and CD originals in a closet to back them up…) and I want to listen to them on the subway, at work, and most importantly – at home throughout my days...

I don’t want to have to sync a device in order to listen to them. I want to load a playlist or something equally trivial.

I have more than 9gb of pictures – I want to be able to view them in a similar manner. Easily, on demand – brain dead simple, from everywhere.

In other words, make it as easy for me to show other people my digital photos as it is to show them my analog photos (and no, making prints doesn’t count – I’m taking over 1000 pics per day when I get going…I mean slideshow…) Same for my music.

Make it easy.

Pretty please?

Jeremy Wright: “I’ve been an avid BlogLines user and evangelist for more than a year. … The only thing I care about is that they don’t pull a BlogRolling and screw the service up.”

I realize that we’ve had some ups and downs over the last year, but screwed up? Jeremy makes this sound so…permanent…terminal even.

Ouch.