Re: [idn] Looking for a little clarification about timelines on multilingual domain names

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

Wrong forum. You should be asking this at mltestbed@verisign.com.

-James Seng

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert" <robert@chalmers.com.au>
To: <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 12:23 PM
Subject: [idn] Looking for a little clarification about timelines on
multilingual domain names


>
> I have perpaps missed some discussion here, with all the other areas
being
> talked about, but I wonder if someone had any idea of when we might
actually
> see the ability to use multilingual character sets in BIND and other
areas.
>  I know it's still in the planning stages, but will it likely be 1
year
> away? 2 years? 3? never?
>
> I ask because Verisign are bringing another testbed online, for a
range of
> character sets. Arabic, French, Vietnamese and so on, and really
wonder if
> the cart is not pushing the horse here - or is development really far
enough
> advanced that we can expect to see the ability to resolve domain names
in
> Chinese for example, sometime soon?
>
> thanks, and sorry if this is the wrong forum.
>
> Robert
>
>