Re: [ga] RE: Who'se done it? .org IDNs killed

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 07:28:45AM -0400,
 Bruce Beckwith <bbeckwith@pir.org> wrote 
 a message of 90 lines which said:

> What I would like to remind you and the community about, however, is that
> when PIR assumed responsibility for the .org TLD, we made it clear to our
> registrar partners (for communication to their customers) that we would not
> support nor charge for existing IDN registrations, since they did not meet
> any industry-accepted standards.

I cannot speak for PIR, obviously, but this seems very
reasonable. Verisign tried to force the use of a proprietary technique
to do IDN, and I understand that PIR does not want to endorse it. I'm
sorry for the registrants, but they were victims of a Verisign
marketing false promise, it does not give them any rights.

ICANN was useful at least once, when warning people against these
false registrations. (Like many warnings, it was mostly ignored.)

Now that we have RFC 3490 and friends, the situation is quite
different and there is no reason to delay the introduction of IDN
(except technical details, of course, which can take a bit of time).


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