IDN related

[Ladislav Vobr]

well, this is the question, are these 13 root servers be IDN root 
servers, if yes than what are these companies actually offering, when 
they are out of the game imho, they all trying to persuade you that it 
is them who will run "IDN root servers" and whose registration will be 
valid.

Ladislav


phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu wrote:

>Ladislav Vobr <lvobr at ies.etisalat.ae> wrote:
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>>hmm, I know it's just the application, which will have to follow 
>>punycode encoding, but there are several subjects already providing IDN 
>>registrations(i-dns, verisign,neteka,waleed..). When you think about it 
>>definitely they run  they own so called "IDN root servers" probably each 
>>of them different ones, with different approach, my questions was 
>>towards this, how this is going to be standarized, how the normal root 
>>servers fit into the picture and where can I get some information about 
>>this.  Sorry to keep posting about IDN and thanks for any reply
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>DNS as we know it by RFC documents uses "the official 13 root-servers".
>So does IDN. 
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>Anything that uses "private root servers" and/or "idn-enhanced"
>nameservers" is non-conformant and may be named anything from 
>"cluless to snakeoil depending on your mood.
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>It does not really matter what they call it since it's not DNS.
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