Re: [ga-roots] Verisign's testbed

[Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org>]

On Thu, 17 May 2001, at 17:52 [=GMT-0400], babybows.com wrote:

> Stefan Probst writes:  "Customers in "UNICODE countries" therefore cannot
> participate in Verisign's "Phase 3.2" (current) and "Phase 3.3" (which
> should start soon). A "testbed" where the testing cannot be done is rather
> useless."
> 
> With regard to this "testbed", it should be noted that the current second
> phase of resolution makes the registrations accessible through the
> controlled, second-level domains, mltbd.com, mltbd.net, and mltbd.org.
> 
> At present there are 36 registrars participating in the testbed program
> http://www.verisign-grs.com/idn/customer.html
> 
> I would be interested in knowing how many of these registrars have actually
> moved forward into this second phase (inaugurated on May 2).
> 
> It would seem (from my limited understanding of this matter) 

My understanding is probably more limited than yours. But since I see
no reply to your message, and find the topic of great importance
myself, I try to share what I know, in the hope that others may
correct and supplement.

> that registrars
> would have to incur some expense in order to adjust client zone files to
> reflect the mltbd second-level domain. 

This would be true, if the registrars run the DNS for these domains
(which can be the case, but is certainly not necessary or usual with
'normal' domains and quite unlikely for the multilingual [now
renamed to internationalized] domains). 

> Have all of these registrars moved
> forward into phase two, or are they simply waiting for phase three to be
> announced (without actually participating in a proper "test")?

It does not depend on the registrar as registrar. Only if the
registrar also does the DNS (meaning usually that the domain is
'sleeping'), then it would. The DNS is all Verisign, AFAIK. (And works
fine!)

The couple of domains I registered myself are working *if you have a
plugin/client*. The registrar did not have to do anything 'extra' for
it. NSI/Verisign has put the nameservers I entered at the registration
into the mltbd.* zone file (for now, in the current phase we are in),
and I have set up DNS for it at my own nameservers. That is how it
works. Very similar to 'normal' domains, only for the moment throught
this mltbd.* SLDs, and not directly, and only for
www.[multilingual.domain], not for other hosts in the domain.

If you have a client/plug in, you can, e.g., see my

§.com [paragraph sign.COM]

For me this domain only works with the WALID client and Netscape 4.7
under Windows. The other client (iClient) does work for other names I
have (with German Umlaut or French accents), but not for this. I have
no idea why. [I have just 'European', Latin Extended, names, nothing
in completely different character sets like Japanese. I would be most 
interested to learn how they are doing.]

The clients are available through:

http://www.verisign-grs.com/idn/client/

[...]

-- 
Marc Schneiders --- Venster NetPresence Consultancy
http://www.venster.nl/
http://www.bijt.net/


--
This message was passed to you via the ga-roots@dnso.org list.
Send mail to majordomo@dnso.org to unsubscribe
("unsubscribe ga-roots" in the body of the message).
Archives at http://www.dnso.org/archives.html