Re: [idn] solfware for IDN

[bill@mail.nic.nu (J. William Semich)]

I agree, this is not a forum for product discussions.

But it is important to look at *implementations* I think.

In the case of nativenames.net, for example, the "implementation" appears
to be no more (and no less) than providing access to a bunch of name
servers running BIND 9.1 which are configured to allow 8-bit clean domain
names in the zone file. It appears that Nativenames loads those with UTF-8
TLDs and SLDs, and may have its own constellation of alternate root
servers. I'll guess there is no nameprep involved either.

I believe BIND 9.1 allows this kind of 8 bit zone file configuration "out
of the box" (if I'm wrong, I'm sure the ISC/Nominum folks will correct or
illucidate).

Meaning implementations of this sort, thanks to readily available free BIND
9 software, will become more and more common until/unless a standard is set.

Just my $.02 

Bill Semich


At 01:36 AM 3/22/01 +0800, Zhu Yu wrote:
>We shouldn't to discuss products here,
>we'd better discuss protocol since products are based on protocol.
>
>There is NO best or perfect products, I will say, at present.
>Before our IDN WG comes out with some RFCs or dies ( I don't want to see
>this), every product
>is just a suggested solution. Then the solution should be discussed here
>before
>it is said to be good or not.
>
>ZY
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jarallah Aljarallah" <jar@nativenames.net>
>To: "vietanh" <vietanh1977@yahoo.com>; "idn working group"
><idn@ops.ietf.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 1:24 PM
>Subject: Re: [idn] solfware for IDN
>
>
>> >I wonder at this time how many IDN solfware (e.g  i-DNS). are there ?
>(both
>> server and >client) Which solfware is the best for IDN.
>>
>> We are a multi-lingual technology provider. Our approach is server based.
>> Our technology works perfectly with BIND 9.1
>>
>> For more information about our solution please email me
>jar@nativenames.net
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jarallah Aljarallah
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
Bill Semich
President and Founder
WorldNames, Inc.
http://www.worldnames.net
bsemich@worldnames.net