Re: [ga] Re: Successful Evaluations of .test IDN TLDs

[Andy Gardner <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, the technical stuff been given the green light, so since ICANN  
is a technical coordination body there can't be anything else standing  
in the way of the launch of IDN ccTLD's, surely?

On Feb 1, 2008, at 3:28 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:51:19AM +0100,
> GNSO.SECRETARIAT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
> wrote
> a message of 46 lines which said:
>
> > Therefore, the Automomica test raised no issue regarding the ability
> > of root-severs and iterative mode resolvers to handle IDN TLD
> > queries.
> A lot of money wasted for an almost useless result. Did ICANN tested
> anything before introducing ".cat" or ".museum"? For the standard (RFC
> 3490), IDN are, in the DNS, perfectly ordinary domain names and there
> is no reason they behave differently.
>
> One can wonder why ICANN performed these tests. To make believe that
> IDN are a dangerous and questionable thing?