Re: [idn] Thoughts on nameprep

["Adam M. Costello" <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>]

Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net> wrote:

> > And you assumed only Registrars will put names into DNS entries? I
> > have not realised that DNS has evolved to a stage where it become a
> > property of Registries and Registrars only.
>
> What other mechanism(s) do you have in mind? What scope(s) does these
> independant mechanism(s) and policy (policies) have?

This may just be a terminology issue.  The nicemice.net domain is for
my personal use, and I operate the primary DNS server for it.  I can
add any names I like under it, but I have no plans to register names at
anyone's request.  Am I a registrar?

AMC