Re: New dates and location for IDNConnect

At 10:43 AM -0700 8/29/03, Bill Manning wrote:
>% Greetings again. We have rescheduled IDNConnect and made it much
>% easier for all IDN developers to attend. Instead of a face-to-face
>% event, IDNConnect will be online, running for five days near the end
>% of September. Please see <http://idnconnect.jdna.jp/> for more
>% information on the event and registration.
>
>For what it is worth,  a couple of TLDs are testing full IDN
>capability by using the testbed @  www.rs.net  for punycoded
>TLD lables.  If there are others that anticipate participation
>in the IDNConnect effort that wish to have a fully IDN/punycode
>FQDN for DNS, you may want to consider participating in that
>testbed as well.

Thanks, that's great to know. We are indeed planning on putting IDNs 
in all layer of the DNS hierarchy as one of the tests at IDNConnect. 
The test plan is that the participants will use the IDNConnect name 
server as the authoritative resolver for the tests. How can folks 
test this capability at www.rs.net?

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--Internet Mail Consortium