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Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E.Seastrom)
Mon Jul 18 09:12:42 2005

To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
Cc: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Robert E.Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:12:08 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20050718095933.GC24951@nic.fr> (Stephane Bortzmeyer's message
 of "Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:59:33 +0200")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu



Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> writes:

>> Already, some 21 TLDs are whitelisted, including .cn, .tw, a number
>> of European ccTLDs, .museum, and .info. Any other registrars who
>> want to be supported can simply E-mail Gerv at the Mozilla
>> Foundation, or his Opera counterpart, and give them a pointer to
>> their anti-spoofing rules.
>
> The Polish registry already refused to comply, saying that the Mozilla
> foundation has no legitimacy deciding the registration rules in ".pl".

And it's completely their right to do this, however, if they are at
all subject to pressure from their constituency this policy will
probably change over time if this scheme becomes a de-facto standard
(say, for instance, M$ and Apple decide to run the same whitelist, the
discussion is effectively over).

What's the drawback again to letting commercial forces help shape the
discussion here?  I forget...

                                        ---Rob


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