On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, David Keegel wrote: > On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 05:20:43PM +0000, Kim Davies wrote: > > Quoting Vic Cinc on Saturday November 25, 2006: > > | > > | another looming "solution" looking for a prolem, is internationalised > > domain names, > > | for which there is no demand. if auda wants idn then it should pay > > | for all 20 odd registrar systems to be modified to handle idn, because > > | for most registrars its going to be a non-recoverable investement. > > > > Why? If a registrar doesn't want to implement IDN support, they > > shouldn't have to. Let the registrars who want to sell them invest in > > whatever technology is required, and if Enetica doesn't want to sell > > IDNs, fine. Don't. > > If I understand the situation correctly, letting any registrars sell > IDNs would require them to use a registry-registrar protocol which > has IDN support, and be talking to a registry backend which has IDN > support. > > The question then is whether the registry offers two or more registry- > registrar protocols simultaneously for registrars to choose between > (one with IDN support, and another which is the same as was used > for the few last years). > > Obviously the registry would also need to handle IDNs internally.
Is it really being proposed to use non-Roman characters in .au domains? Cheers, Ian --------------------------------------------------------------------------- List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://dotau.org/
