Re: [ICANN-EU] Multilingual Domain Names.

[Alf Hansen <aha@uninett.no>]

Roberto,

Roberto Gaetano wrote:
> 
> Alf,
> >
> >No-one should be tempted to implement premature solutions in a real
> >operational environment before the IETF has concluded their work.
> >
> 
> I agree that the ideal way is to have the IETF producing the standard, and
> then proceed with the implementation.
> But I do not think that we can stop the "market" from implementing other
> solutions in the meantime (you use yourself the form "should"). Of course,
> we risk to have a mess afterwards, but what to do?
> 
> Regards
> Roberto
> 

As you say, "we risk to have a mess afterwards", so we should at least
explain this risk to "the market". If one uses non-Internet-standard DNS
products, some functionality will be lost: There will be "islands", and
the global DNS will not work as expected.

Best regards,
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