[126225] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internationalized domain names in the root
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Sat May 8 11:49:27 2010
Date: 8 May 2010 15:48:40 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20100508123622.GA2552@macbook.catpipe.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>> To fix it, the .eg / .xn--4gbrim TLD registrar needs to contact the
>> Mozilla Foundation in order to inform the Foundation of their
>> official IDN name allocation policy, so that the native-script URL
>> display can then be switched on for their domain.
>
> Wow, talk about layer violation.
Yeah, security can be like that. Things which technically are treated
the same are often semantically very different.
> Is there a central place where various TLDs' IDN policies will
> be maintained ?
Yes, of course. See http://www.iana.org/domains/idn-tables/
It doesn't have the new IDN TLDs yet, but that's not surprising since
ICANN didn't bother to tell the registries in advance that would be
making the TLDs active. See
http://www.circleid.com/posts/by_the_way_your_idn_is_live/
R's,
John
