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[registrars] Re: Deletion of all IDN.org domains February 1st 2004:-(

  • To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx>
  • Subject: [registrars] Re: Deletion of all IDN.org domains February 1st 2004:-(
  • From: "Robert F. Connelly" <rconnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:01:12 -0800
  • Cc: Registrars Constituency <registrars@xxxxxxxx>, "David W. Maher" <dmaher@xxxxxxx>, Bruce Beckwith <Bbeckwith@xxxxxxx>
  • In-reply-to: <20040113100920.GA17937@nic.fr>
  • References: <6.0.1.1.2.20040112151348.05dc49e0@mail.beach.net> <20040113100920.GA17937@nic.fr>
  • Sender: owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

At 02:09 AM 1/13/04, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
[Not with AFNIC hat, just a personal advice.]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 05:45:23PM -0800,
 Robert F. Connelly <rconnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
 a message of 72 lines which said:

>    On or about 23 December 2003, PIR announced on their web site
>    their intention to delete all idn.org domains which were in the
>    domains they migrated from Verisign. ... The announcement says
>    that PIR will delete all RACE encoded .org domains --
>    bq--xxxxxxx.org --

They are not IDN. IDN is specified in RFC 3490 and friends and does
not use RACE. RACE was an early experiment and there is no reason to
maintain it.

Dear Stephane: I would like to agree with you, I prefer to call them ML.org. However, Verisign has been calling the RACE encoded domains "IDN" for quite a long time.

That testbed was a disaster for our firm. PIR is poised on the brink of driving another nail in our coffin.

Thank you for your comments.

Cordially, BobC






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