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Re: [ga] VeriSign & Korean IDN.com issue

  • To: Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jaeyoun Kim <jaeyounkim@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [ga] VeriSign & Korean IDN.com issue
  • From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:47:54 -0700 (PDT)
  • Cc: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>, ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Karl,

I think I'll wait until all the facts are at hand
before offering a pronouncement as to whether this is
an ICANN issue...

my first impression, however, is that the ICANN
registry that launched the IDN testbed service has
taken an unannounced action that has resulted in the
destabilization of normative internet services in an
entire country.  

The Affirmation of Responsibilities in the Joint
Project Agreement states:

TLD Management: ICANN shall maintain and build on
processes to ensure that competition, consumer
interests, and Internet DNS stability and security
issues are identified and considered in TLD management
decisions, including the consideration and
implementation of new TLDs and the introduction of
IDNs.   

If ICANN, through the above, has tacitly agreed to
accept IDN TLD management responsibilities, then we
now have "an ICANN issue".



--- Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jaeyoun Kim wrote:
> 
> > It seems that Verisign had no consideration of
> Korean IDN .com domain
> > name registrants and users. There must be a good
> reason why Verisign
> > shut down the service.
> 
> I tend to agree with Stephane - this was an external
> service that is 
> outside the ICANN system.
> 
> Verisign, as a private body, is free to add/shed any
> product offering 
> except as constrained by law or contract.
> 
> I might add that the root server operators have a
> similar degree of 
> freedom - we are all relying on their voluntary,
> uncompensated 
> continuation of the status quo.
> 
> The answer, it seems, could simply be money - If so
> many domain name 
> providers and users in Korea are depending on the
> (now gone) Verisign 
> service, perhaps they ought to cumulate their funds
> and offer to pay 
> Verisign to resume the service.
> 
> This is not an ICANN issue.
> 
> 		--karl--
> 
> 
> 



       
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