RE: [idn] NSI Multilingual Testbed Information (fwd)

["Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenb@netsol.com>]

Patrik,

Yes, you're right, case folding and "equality" issues haven't been resolved,
and there is risk associated with registering names given today's state of
affairs.  We'll keep the test bed up-to-date as proposals develop and evolve
into standards.  In the mean time we're being very open about the fact that
registered names may be invalidated as standards emerge, and we'll work with
the participating registrars to define responses to specific issues.

Scott Hollenbeck
Network Solutions, Inc. Registry

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrik Fältström [mailto:paf@cisco.com]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 8:23 AM
To: Hollenbeck, Scott; idn@ops.ietf.org
Subject: RE: [idn] NSI Multilingual Testbed Information (fwd)


At 07.11 -0400 00-08-25, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:
>We fully intend to keep the test bed in synch with this group's efforts.
If
>something other than RACE encoding is what eventually becomes a proposed
>standard, we'll change the test bed to keep up.

The problem is definitly not the encoding. The problem has to do with 
the question of what is "equal".

Today "foo.com" and "FOO.com" are equal.

For international domainnames, the IDN wg is not even close to know 
what is equal or not, so it will most certainly be a risk for anyone 
deploying internationalized domainnames.

I.e. if users A and B register two domainnames which today according 
to whatever rules are _NOT_ equal, and the IDN wg decide that they 
later should be treated as the same. Do you, Scott, call A or B and 
tell that user that he can no longer have his domainname? Which one 
do you call?

    paf