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These are important questions, but posing those questions requires, I think
somewhat more debate.<br>
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Why? I'll confess this is my washington policy sensibility clicking. This
consticuency seeks to provide a voice for non-commercial organizations within
the ICANN process, which includes on issues of registry opperation. It is
a no brainer to ask how the non-commercial registrants, which this consticuency
is designed to represent, will be protected.<br>
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It is somewhat more challenging to send a letter inquirying about policy,
because then the wording becomes very important and may require extensive
debate. By contrast, a simple inquiry about the welfare of non-commercial
registrants should be both simple to execute and relatively non-controversial.<br>
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Harold<br>
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Marc Schneiders wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">As a non-native speaker of English I may say things too strongly... In<br>any case, I would like the letter you suggest also to include a<br>request for clarification about why PIR is doing away with IDN names<br>in .ORG and why in such a secret way, both in March 2003, when<br>resolution suddenly stopped and now again, esp. since so far PIR has<br>promised to let these domains hibernate until some final encoding for<br>IDNs is approved.<br><br>On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, at 10:16 [=GMT-0500], Harold Feld wrote:<br><br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">It seems to me that perhaps it is appropriate for the executive<br>committee of the consticuency to send a polite letter of inquiry from<br>the consticuency to PIR asking if the notification is correct and, if<br>so, what steps will be taken to inform and mitigate hardship to the<br>non-commercial user who registered for these names in good faith.<br><br>Harold Feld<br><br>Marc Schneiders wrote:<br><br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">Perhaps more than a footnote to the present discussion of "Approval<br>process for gtld service changes": PIR is going to delete all<br>multilingual domains (also called IDN) on February 2004. I learned<br>about this through the newsletter of a German registrar (quote below).<br><br>I have protested earlier about the silent end to resolution (working<br>DNS) of these domains in March 2003. PIR was not very responsive, to<br>put it mildly. Now again there will be a secret change to these<br>domains. They will quietly disappear. I see no message about it on the<br>PIR website.<br><br>I am of the opinion that this is unacceptable in several respects:<br><br>1. Registrants are not notified. I have such a domain and I heard<br>nothing.<br><br>2. It is done in a most intransparent, even secret manner.<br><br>3. It is related to the redelegation of a TLD. Will the same thing<br>happen in 2005 with .NET?<br><br>4. Multilingual domains were a private initiative of
Verisign, not<br>approved by ICANN, but neither did ICANN tell Verisign not to do it.<br>In this context it is most relevant for the "approval process" topic.<br><br>5. PIR kills .ORG multilinguals for technical reasons, it says (well<br>the German text below does). At the same time Afilias (which runs .ORG<br>technically) is introducing multilingual .INFO domains. Can anyone<br>explain this to me, please?<br><br>>From newsletter of dd24.net:<br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>PIR wird multilinguale .ORG Domains nun doch löschen<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Nach einer anders lautenden Meldung im November hat uns das kürzlich<br>ernannte Zentralregister für .ORG Domains, Public Interest Registry<br>(PIR),<br>jetzt darüber informiert, dass die Registrierungen der nach dem<br>ehemaligen<br>"RACE-Verfahren" eingetragenen multilingualen .ORG Domains
(also<br>Domains mit<br>Umlauten bzw. Sonderzeichen) doch nicht länger kostenlos verlängert<br>werden.<br>Stattdessen hat sich PIR für eine Löschung aller multilingualen .ORG<br>Domains<br>zum 1. Februar 2004 entschieden.<br><br>Gründe für diese Entscheidung sind insbesondere die technischen<br>Schwierigkeiten und Unsicherheiten der zukünftigen Umwandlung der<br>bereits<br>registrierten Domains in das neue "Punycode-Verfahren".<br><br>Nun muss zunächst einmal geklärt werden, auf welche Weise eine<br>Neueinführung<br>multilingualer .ORG Domains gemäß des allgemeinen Standarts zukünftig<br>überhaupt durchgeführt werden soll. Wir sind gespannt...<br><br>Quelle: PIR<br><br><br></pre>
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