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[idn] [icann-announce] ICANN Comment on NSI Registry Multilingual DomainName Testbed (fwd)
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- Subject: [idn] [icann-announce] ICANN Comment on NSI Registry Multilingual DomainName Testbed (fwd)
- From: Rick H Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 18:21:06 -0700 (PDT)
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-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.