Re: [idn] Thoughts on nameprep

["James Seng/Personal" <James@Seng.cc>]

*sigh* It is this kind of attitude about the whole DNS which has evolves
around ICANN which make the whole so scarely. The moment anything is
been said about outside registry/registrar, they assumed automatically
we are speaking about alternative root with other mechansim and policy
which may threaten their existence.

Hello, there are other names in DNS tree (note, the whole point of DNS
is its hierarchy) which is *NOT* owned by any registries or registrars.

-James Seng

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine" <brunner@nic-naa.net>
To: "James Seng/Personal" <James@Seng.cc>
Cc: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>; <idn@ops.ietf.org>;
<brunner@nic-naa.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: [idn] Thoughts on nameprep


> ...
> > > Registrars will forbid strings that have [some particular
property,
> > > the specific instance omitted from the original as irrelevant to
the
> > > mechanism/policy issue.]
> >
> > 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?