Re: Mixing of characters

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 08:54 09.01.00 +0800, James Seng wrote:
>On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> > while this is not strictly a technical issue, I see difficulty with 
> getting
> > ICANN to accept the insertion of numerous non-ASCII domains in the root
> > nameservers at the same time as there is a very restrictive policy for
> > inserting ASCII domains.
> >
> > This means that if the DNS we want to internationalize is the same as the
> > normal DNS, it's a requirement that internationalization can occur under
> > the ASCII top-levlel domain labels.
>
>I think this is grossly unfair. Why should the technical implementation be
>restricted by what ICANN prefer to do?

<ironic>
because we want it to work for real customers?
</ironic>

>Beside, I remember our charter does not define who or what if any
>government bodies should take care of I18N Domain Names.

right, that's why I call it "not strictly a technical issue".
Our solution has to work (IMHO) when non-ASCII TLDs are allocated.
But I think it's a requirement that it should work also when they aren't.

I.e. I want to register Øystese.no - no will remain ascii forever, while 
Øystese is not ASCII.

                   Harald

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
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