[ga] Re: [bwg+] Fw: [icann-announce] ICANN Comment on NSI Registry Multilingual Domain Name Testbed

[Jay Fenello <Jay@Fenello.com>]

Since when can anyone change the
rules of the namespace, without 
following the RFC process ;-)

Jay.


At 08:58 PM 8/25/00, Christopher Ambler wrote:
>Can anyone tell me who wrote this?
>
>Christopher
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <icann-announce@icann.org>
>To: "ICANN Announcement List" <icann-announce@icann.org>
>Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 6:00 PM
>Subject: [icann-announce] ICANN Comment on NSI Registry Multilingual Domain
>Name Testbed
>
>
> > (25 August 2000) Yesterday, NSI Registry announced its plans to open a
> > testbed for ICANN-accredited registrars to register domain names in
> > non-English language character sets in .com, .net, and .org.
> > <http://www.nsol.com/news/2000/pr_20000824.html>
> >
> > ICANN recognizes that it is important that the Internet evolve to be
> > more accessible to those who do not use English-language character
> > sets. At the same time, the internationalization of the Internet's
> > domain name system must be accomplished through standards that are
> > open, non-proprietary, and fully compatible with the Internet's
> > existing end-to-end model and that preserve globally unique naming
> > in a universally resolvable public name space. ICANN strongly
> > supports the principle stated by the IETF's working group on
> > Internationalized Domain Names:
> >
> >    "A fundamental requirement in this work is to not disturb the
> >    current use and operation of the domain name system, and for the
> >    DNS to continue to allow any system anywhere to resolve any
> >    domain name."
> >
> > <http://www.i-d-n.net/>
> >
> > With those goals in mind, ICANN intends to monitor closely the
> > implementation of non-English language character sets by NSI
> > Registry in the .com, .net, and .org top-level domains.


Respectfully,

Jay Fenello,
New Media Strategies
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