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

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:19:20PM +0200,
 Marc Schneiders <marc@fuchsia.bijt.net> wrote 
 a message of 39 lines which said:

> 2. I'd rather say the people were the victim of ICANN giving ORG to
> another entity, one that refuses to support the 'testbed'.

They were right. The testbed was a testbed. It should not give any
rights to the registrant. Otherwise, any operation sold as a "test"
(for instance, to gain more acceptance) could lead to the entrenchment
of rights.

> Should we expect that .net IDNs will stop working in 2005 when .net
> will be given (if that happens) to another?

It would make sense, yes.
 
> Stability?

Stability between standards: if RFC 3490 is one day updated or
replaced by another, we expect that the registrants of RFC3490 domains
will be offered some form of free upgrade. We expect that they will
not loose anything just because IETF evolved.

But there is no reason to guarantee any stability between experiments
and the real stuff. That's what experiments are for. (ICP-3 gives
details about that, although this document is not often quoted because
the pro-domo speech of ICANN is annoying.)

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