[idn] Fw: Re: CNRP based service?

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicolas Popp" <nico@REALNAMES.COM>
To: <CNRP-IETF@LISTS.NETSOL.COM>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 1:40 AM
Subject: Re: CNRP based service?


> Theinternational domain names are resolving through RealNames Keywords
> resolvers.
> It is not based on CNRP as the existing versions of IE does not
implement
> CNRP (CNRP is not an RFC yet), but the resolution still happens
through a
> common name resolution system.
> The way it works is as follows.
>
> 0. The user types ML.com
> 1. The browser tries DNS but it fails
> 2. The browser then tries the RealNames Keyword resolution system
(using a
> simple HTTP query interface)
> 3. The Keywords resolver recognizes the suffix .com (or .org or .net).
It
> namepreps the ML string and encodes it using RACE encoding (DUDE
tomorrow)
> according to the iDN Working Group drafts.
> 4. The resolver redirects the browser to bq--xxxx.mtbld.com (the
Verisign
> testbed)
> 5. DNS and the test bed do the rest
>
> The nice thing about this approach is that:
>
> . No change is required at the client or at the ISP level.
> . It is a server side implementation that can quickly be changed as
the iDN
> standard is finalized (we can backward enable IE with the final iDN
standard
> so that iDN names reolve properly). However, note that the name
displayed in
> the browser bar is the ascii encoded name not the language friendly
name
> that was typed initially.
>
> Obviously, it only works in IE at this point (where the keyword
resolution
> mechanism is built-in), but Web browsing is clearly a key application.
>
> Although, this is not specifically using CNRP, this is a great example
of
> the kind of things (extended naming services) that can be implemented
> through CNRP enabled applications.
>
> -Nico
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kazuo NISHIYAMA [mailto:nishi@po.ntts.co.jp]
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 3:58 AM
> To: CNRP-IETF@LISTS.NETSOL.COM
> Subject: CNRP based service?
>
>
> Hello, I'm a newcomer of this ML.
>
> I found following news.
>
> > VeriSign Announces Breakthrough in Web Navigation
> > For Tens of Millions of Users Worldwide
> >
> > Users can now reach Web sites via domain names in
> > their own languages through Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0
> >
> > http://corporate.verisign.com/news/2001/pr_20010620.html
>
> Is this service uses CNRP or different technology?
>
> ---
> Kazuo NISHIYAMA
> nishi@po.ntts.co.jp