[idn] [icann-announce] ICANN Comment on NSI Registry Multilingual DomainName Testbed (fwd)

[Rick H Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

FYI

-rick

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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 18:04:42 -0700
From: icann-announce@icann.org
To: ICANN Announcement List <icann-announce@icann.org>
Subject: [icann-announce]  ICANN Comment on NSI Registry Multilingual Domain
    Name Testbed

(25 August 2000) Yesterday, NSI Registry announced its plans to open a 
testbed for ICANN-accredited registrars to register domain names in 
non-English language character sets in .com, .net, and .org.
<http://www.nsol.com/news/2000/pr_20000824.html>

ICANN recognizes that it is important that the Internet evolve to be 
more accessible to those who do not use English-language character 
sets. At the same time, the internationalization of the Internet's 
domain name system must be accomplished through standards that are 
open, non-proprietary, and fully compatible with the Internet's 
existing end-to-end model and that preserve globally unique naming 
in a universally resolvable public name space. ICANN strongly 
supports the principle stated by the IETF's working group on 
Internationalized Domain Names:

   "A fundamental requirement in this work is to not disturb the 
   current use and operation of the domain name system, and for the 
   DNS to continue to allow any system anywhere to resolve any 
   domain name."

<http://www.i-d-n.net/>

With those goals in mind, ICANN intends to monitor closely the 
implementation of non-English language character sets by NSI 
Registry in the .com, .net, and .org top-level domains.