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RE: [idn] Verisign's i-Nav plug-in services - will this become the de facto IDN standard?
- To: "Peter Gustav Olson - pgo" <pgo@psglaw.dk>
- Subject: RE: [idn] Verisign's i-Nav plug-in services - will this become the de facto IDN standard?
- From: "Michel Suignard" <michelsu@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:23:27 -0800
- Cc: <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Title: Message
Verisign is not the first one which has written this kind of plug-in. To
the best of my knowledge, Microsoft has nothing to do with this. Please don't
propagate these kinds of rumors unless you can substantiate
them.
Furthermore, the IDN ACE prefix is obviously not known yet. There are
many of us waiting for that anxiously. The case shown below is just a well-known
testbed of IDN, not IDN itself.
This
is not a judgement on what Verisign does, by any mean.
Michel
Suignard
Usual
disclaimer about not representing a company position but my personal
opinion
Verisign has now apparently struck a deal
with Microsoft whereby the Internet Explorer 5.0+ now supports Verisign's
internationalized domain names (IDN's)
http://www.verisign.com/corporate/news/2003/pr_20030114b.html
These are now being marketed actively here in
Denmark.
If you key in an IDN in Internet Explorer, it
asks you if you want to download the i-Nav plug in, which goes very quickly.
Thereafter you can key in all the IDNs that Verisign has sold in the testbed.
For example "Ĝl" means beer, and ĝl.com was sold to Carlsberg. Check out
www.ĝl.com. You will see that it actually hops to a third level under
.mltbd.com ("Multilingual testbed"?)
The problem, as I see it, is that it works
too well. In that respect it reminds me of Real Names Internet Keywords, which
Microsoft thankfully stopped supporting
Any thoughts on whether we should register IDN's - or is
this just a waste of money while we await ICANN's take on this?
Yours
sincerely
Peter Olson