RE: [ga] On Its Way: One of the Biggest Changes to the Internet

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am far from an expert but I inserted my understandings below.

Chuck Gomes
 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Danny Younger
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 12:09 PM
> To: Prophet Partners Inc.; ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ga] On Its Way: One of the Biggest Changes to 
> the Internet
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> Ted raises an interesting point regarding usability. 
> My questions for the experts among us:
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> (1) Will e-mail work between an IDN domain and an ASCII domain?

We are quite a ways from being able to implement IDNs in email, at least
in terms of actually using IDN scripts in domain names.  Of course, the
Punycode names would work just fine because they use only ASCII
characters.

> (2) If the current WHOIS system only accomodates ASCII, will 
> the WHOIS properly function in an IDN environment?

It depends what you mean by 'properly function'. Will they show both the
Punycode name and its IDN equivalent?  I think that is unlikely,
especially at first, but registries and registrars could provide
conversion tools.  I am not up to speed on this, but some could already
do that.

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