Re: [ICANN-EU] Multilingual Domain Names.

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Alf and all,

Alf Hansen wrote:

> 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.

  Of course it not necessarily true that if non-standard DNS (Whatever that is
today)
would cause any functionality loss of any kind as long as other DNS software
is backward compatible.  In fact this is already being done without any loss
in functionality today.  Hence I cannot find your comment/statement here
to be anything other than alarmist....

>
>
> Best regards,
> --
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