FYI
-rick ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:10:00 -0400 From: VeriSign Global Registry Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IDNList] Registrar Advisory: AMC-ACE- Z in the zones To All IDN-Certified Registrars: VeriSign Global Registry Services (GRS) intends to move forward in the Internationalized Domain Name Testbed by placing the IDNs directly into the .com, .net and .org zones. The zones will be populated with the AMC-ACE-Z v0.3.1 representation of the IDNs. Registrars do not need to modify any of their current registration processes to support this change. All existing IDNs originally registered with RACE will be valid under the AMC-ACE-Z encoding. Deployment will occur from October 27th, 2001 through November 12th, 2001. On October 27th, all existing registrations will have their associated AMC-ACE-Z representation calculated and stored in the database along with the current RACE representation. The registration process will not change: all new registrations will still be received in RACE, but will now have the AMC-ACE-Z component calculated and stored in the database. Reports will be available on a monthly basis showing a registrar�s IDN registrations in both RACE and AMC-ACE-Z representations. These reports will be posted to the Registrar FTP site. Because this deployment will require a modification to the zone generation process, there will be a two-week parallel operation period to ensure that the zone files generated under the new process are equivalent to the files generated by the old zone process. Upon completion of the parallel operation period, approximately November 12th, 2001, VeriSign GRS will take all IDN registrations off of Registry�Hold status and place them on Active status, which allows the IDNs to be selected by the zone generation process. This change from Registry-Hold to Active status will be a background process and will not require an outage of the SRS, though it will require a few days to change all IDNs to Active status. In addition, all new IDN registrations as of that date will be placed on Active status. The next step in the testbed will be the migration of all IDN-certified Registrars to the new ACE standard for registration. We do not anticipate beginning this process until there is an RFC from the IETF pertaining to an ACE. More information will be provided as it becomes available. All registrars will have ample time to prepare for this migration. If you require additional information, please contact Customer Service at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best Regards, Chris Sheridan Manager, Customer Service VeriSign Global Registry Services www.verisign-grs.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Customer Service --------- Participants on the VeriSign Global Registry Services idntestbed list are requested to not cross-post messages.
