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

[Andy Gardner <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 11, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Gomes, Chuck wrote:

> I am far from an expert but I inserted my understandings below.
>
> Chuck Gomes
>
>
> > (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.
.jp WHOIS outputs UNICODE now.

If you use a terminal set to understand UNICODE, it works fine.

Chuck, any chance of a response from Verisign regarding my earlier  
question about ICANN using simplified and traditional variants as  
test TLD's while Verisign blocks variants in com/net?
Cheers,