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

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

I was waiting for clarification of a couple questions I had.  I can tell
you that we do offer registrations at the second level in both
traditional and simplified Chinese, but they are not referred to as
variants.  In both scripts we use variant tables provided by the Chinese
community to control variants.

Chuck Gomes
 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andy Gardner
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 3:18 PM
> To: ga DNSO
> Subject: Re: [ga] On Its Way: One of the Biggest Changes to 
> the Internet
> 
> 
> 
> 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,
> 
> 
> 
>