PIR and stability and consumer protection?

[Thierry Amoussougbo]

Dear all,

I think that it is difficult to react now because ICANN did not agree on
this and also we did not say anything to stop it as NCC. ?
If you think that we can use official procedure for this kind of situation
let us use it. If not I'm not seeing how we can stop this because it was
not authorized.

Best regards.


Thierry H. Amoussougbo
Regional Adviser
Development Information Services Division
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Tel: 251 1 511167 ext 33053
Fax: 251 1 510512
E-mail : tamoussougbo at uneca.org



                                                                                                          
                      Marc Schneiders                                                                     
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Perhaps more than a footnote to the present discussion of "Approval
process for gtld service changes": PIR is going to delete all
multilingual domains (also called IDN) on February 2004. I learned
about this through the newsletter of a German registrar (quote below).

I have protested earlier about the silent end to resolution (working
DNS) of these domains in March 2003. PIR was not very responsive, to
put it mildly. Now again there will be a secret change to these
domains. They will quietly disappear. I see no message about it on the
PIR website.

I am of the opinion that this is unacceptable in several respects:

1. Registrants are not notified. I have such a domain and I heard
nothing.

2. It is done in a most intransparent, even secret manner.

3. It is related to the redelegation of a TLD. Will the same thing
happen in 2005 with .NET?

4. Multilingual domains were a private initiative of Verisign, not
approved by ICANN, but neither did ICANN tell Verisign not to do it.
In this context it is most relevant for the "approval process" topic.

5. PIR kills .ORG multilinguals for technical reasons, it says (well
the German text below does). At the same time Afilias (which runs .ORG
technically) is introducing multilingual .INFO domains. Can anyone
explain this to me, please?

>From newsletter of dd24.net:

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PIR wird multilinguale .ORG Domains nun doch löschen
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Nach einer anders lautenden Meldung im November hat uns das kürzlich
ernannte Zentralregister für .ORG Domains, Public Interest Registry
(PIR),
jetzt darüber informiert, dass die Registrierungen der nach dem
ehemaligen
"RACE-Verfahren" eingetragenen multilingualen .ORG Domains (also
Domains mit
Umlauten bzw. Sonderzeichen) doch nicht länger kostenlos verlängert
werden.
Stattdessen hat sich PIR für eine Löschung aller multilingualen .ORG
Domains
zum 1. Februar 2004 entschieden.

Gründe für diese Entscheidung sind insbesondere die technischen
Schwierigkeiten und Unsicherheiten der zukünftigen Umwandlung der
bereits
registrierten Domains in das neue "Punycode-Verfahren".

Nun muss zunächst einmal geklärt werden, auf welche Weise eine
Neueinführung
multilingualer .ORG Domains gemäß des allgemeinen Standarts zukünftig
überhaupt durchgeführt werden soll. Wir sind gespannt...

Quelle: PIR