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

[Jean-Michel Becar <Jean-Michel.Becar@etsi.fr>]

Christopher,

Are you talking about the annoucement or the Position Paper?
The Position paper should have been written by 
Tom Newell
VP, Registry DNS Programs

Regards,
J-M


-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Ambler [mailto:cambler@iodesign.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 2:58 AM
To: ga@dnso.org
Subject: [ga] Fw: [icann-announce] ICANN Comment on NSI Registry
Multilingual Domain Name Testbed


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.

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