On Friday 18 June 2004 04:21, Swerve wrote: > > I'm not gonna ask about that other abbreviation you are using. Ha.
PIR - Public Interest Registry. http://www.pir.org/ Founded by ISOC (Internet Society) as the body to handle the ".ORG" domain, in 2002. I'm not quite clear how much operational role they have, as I'm not sure how much Afilias and UltraDNS are delegated, or precisely how they all relate to each other. I too would have liked a better description of the changes - I assume if we have no internationalized domain names the change does not affect us? As I understand it there were two Internationalized encodings, and standardisation meant that one had to go, RACE lost the standards battle, and was to be phased out in the first half of 2004 (i.e. by last week). Simon, who has enough trouble with ASCII.
