Re: IAB letter on IDNs and VeriSign
"Soobok Lee" <[email protected]>
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<quote> [14] At the core of all of the IAB's concerns is the architectural principle that the DNS is a lookup service which must behave in an interoperable, predictable way at all levels of the DNS hierarchy. Furthermore, as a lookup service it is such a fundamental part of the Internet's infrastructure that converting it to an application-based search service, as the deployed system does, is not appropriate even in the case where the query presented would not normally map to a registered domain. </quote> I have to accept IAB's concerns about VGRS solutions. But, if such solutions will be timedout and phased out after 2 years and operated with care under IAB's new "operational guidelines", those harms can be minimized, while it will give great boostup to plugins distributions. I expect ICANN will consider the bright side of the solutions and make balanced decisions. Many asian region NICs are considering to put even non-ASCII labels in their zone (not IDNA-compatibile) with slightly different approaches, even after they become fully aware of those caveats behind their approaches. IDNA/stringprep/nameprep introduce confusions,collisions and uncertainty to the DNS systems much more than VGRS specific implementation/deployment solutions does ,as explained in ICANN BoD's last resolutions in Shanghai.. IESG/IAB are willing to justify that IDNA by supplemental Registrations guidelines ? If IDNA can be justified in such a way, why not VGRS solutions ? :-) Still I hope IAB can express such consistent conservatism also to IDNA/nameprep itself, which is the source of all these hassles.... Soobok Lee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Hoffman / IMC" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 6:14 AM Subject: [idn] IAB letter on IDNs and VeriSign > ICANN has recently posted a letter from the IAB to ICANN on the ICANN > web site. The letter is the IAB's response to the way that VGRS is > currently running the .com and .net TLDs. Folks following IDNs should > be interested in it. > > <http://www.icann.org/correspondence/iab-message-to-lynn-25jan03.htm> > > --Paul Hoffman, Director > --Internet Mail Consortium >,