Re: [idn] report of the straw poll

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

At 11:11 AM +0800 5/26/01, James Seng/Personal wrote:
>Verisign is moving ahead to put RACE into their .COM zone would means
>wide deployment of RACE and also applications (or servers) to be
>developed to support resolutions. They may or may not be IDNA or even
>close to the what we like to be.

VGRS *might* put RACE into the .com zone, or they might do the more 
rational thing and wait for the ACE Design Team's report. It is not 
appropriate to say what VGRS will or will not do in the future; that 
changes all the time.

Section C of Appendix K of the agreement between VGRS and ICANN 
reserves all RACE names for ICANN; VGRS needs permission before they 
can add them to the TLDs.

Why is any of this relevant to the straw poll?

>But the fact that this is happening is somewhat of a concern as it may
>undermine the work we are doing in this Working Group as it *might* lead
>to an industry driven protocol.

Or it might not.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
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