Re: ICANN warns world of domain hijacking

2005-07-17 Thread John Levine
Is ICANN actually going to come up with a set of guidelines ? ICANN? No. The SSAC who wrote the report and are a bunch of people who actually have some clues about running networks? Definitely.

Re: ICANN, VeriSign Will Consider Changes on .net Agreement

2005-07-17 Thread John Levine
I don't know if it is the repeated ICANN can't be trusted / is corrupt messaging, or the sensitivity of the .NET rebid (aka VGRS deregulation) that got the prompt action -- It's more that ICANN has figured out that registrars are where all their revenue comes from, and if they dragged their feet

Re: ICANN, VeriSign Will Consider Changes on .net Agreement

2005-07-17 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
I don't know if it is the repeated ICANN can't be trusted / is corrupt messaging, or the sensitivity of the .NET rebid (aka VGRS deregulation) that got the prompt action -- It's more that ICANN has figured out that registrars are where all their revenue comes from, and if they dragged

Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed

2005-07-17 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
Forwarded Message from Neil Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: ...sez Vint...due to the prevalence of phishing: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8586332/ - ferg Paul, I'm not registered as a poster on the Nanog list, so I thought I'd let you know that this problem is

Re: Phoenix

2005-07-17 Thread Dave Siegel
If that is a general question, I'd say the answer is no. There does not seem to be a great deal of interest in Phoenix as a peering location. Years ago, MPIX was founded and located in the Genuity/GTE facility in Phoenix, but that closed quite some time ago. If there is a small REP or IX in

Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed

2005-07-17 Thread Dave Crocker
After extensive analysis and discussion, the Mozilla community and Opera have already produced a fix for this, based on only displaying Unicode IDN labels where the registry publishes and enforces well-defined anti-homograph policies, and displaying the Punycode equivalent 1. It's