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

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the response.

My concern regarding WHOIS is from the perspective of
the user experience.  If a registrant enters his
contact details at a gTLD registrar interface in Farsi
or Mandarin, will his WHOIS contact details similarly
be displayed in Farsi or Mandarin?  

More to the point, if gTLD IDNs are launched, will all
registrars that offer the product be required to offer
a website interface, terms of service agreements,
customer service, transfer forms, etc. in the
particular language to which the IDN corresponds?




--- "Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am far from an expert but I inserted my
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> > 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 
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> > Ted raises an interesting point regarding
> usability. 
> > My questions for the experts among us:
> > 
> > (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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