non-member bounced. james > From: "Soobok Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: about NSI ML-testbed and i-DNS proxy's vulnerability > Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:45:52 +0900 > > To IDN : > > =20 > I agree with Wissen's opinion about NSI practice on ML-Testbed = > operation. > > =20 > Before standards are finalized , > REAL consumers may hesitate to register ML .com domains=20 > and more opportunites will be given to squatters. > Browsers,Webservers and PKI infrastructures are not ready! > Is NSI contributing to promotion of early domain squatting ? > > NSI could restrict testbed registration to subsets of the entire = > namespace. > For example, to ML-domains like "TEST-(CJK).com" that is > prefixed by "TEST-". > This is enough for test purpose. > > The ML testbed and the huge groups of squatters and registrants=20 > would make influence on IETF/IDN processes. > IETF/IDN must not hurry and must not be under pressure to do so. > ICANN should comment on this... > > NSI's early Resolution phase appears to need a transistion solution , = > i-dnx proxy. > But, i-DNS's DNS-PROXY fails to resolve =20 > native-code ML-queries from Netscape 4.X on WIN9X plaforms=20 > without CCS conflicts. NN on WIN9X does not speak UTF8 on HTTP and = > DNS queries. > It may mislead web surfers to wrong sites and may cause security = > problems. > It may isolate Netscape users from others, contrary to IAB's = > recommendation RFC 2825. > I-DNS proxy is dangerous to be deployed as a transition solution. > > Would you comment on this? =20 > =20 > Regards, > > Soobok Lee, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > =20 > =20 > > > all: > > It appears that we have been misled as to the value of our participation > in the multi-language testbed. Apparently Network Solutions Registrar = > has > declared how multi-language will work superseding the Verisign Registry, > ICANN, the registrars participating in the ML-Testbed, and with > complete disregard to any IETF standards on the process of managing > Multi-language Domain Registrations. > > For the complete announcement see = > http://www.nsol.com/news/2000/pr_20001003.html > > I am completely perplexed as to how NSI Registrar is able to traverse > these issues without inside support from the NSI Registry. Not only am I > alarmed, but I am concerned for the integrity and stability of the > Internet put in jeopardy by Versign/NSI disregard of the standards and > consensus processes. > > As NSI stated in their press release "The Internet is never going to = > look > the same." and thats exactly what I am worried about. Even more > interesting is that the Registry announcement of the testbed's start = > date > has not even been announced! NSI Registry won't even tell other = > Registrars > the date an announcement will be made. > > I call upon ICANN to provide some oversight into the process of the > multi-language domain name testbed ASAP and for ICANN to ensure that the > standards and consensus processes are strictly adhered to by all = > parties. > > > regards, > > -rick > >
