[registrars] Re: Deletion of all IDN.org domains February 1st 2004:-(

[Robert F. Connelly]

At 02:09 AM 1/13/04, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>[Not with AFNIC hat, just a personal advice.]
>
>On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 05:45:23PM -0800,
>  Robert F. Connelly <rconnell at psi-japan.com> wrote
>  a message of 72 lines which said:
>
> >    On or about 23 December 2003, PIR announced on their web site
> >    their intention to delete all idn.org domains which were in the
> >    domains they migrated from Verisign. ... The announcement says
> >    that PIR will delete all RACE encoded .org domains --
> >    bq--xxxxxxx.org --
>
>They are not IDN. IDN is specified in RFC 3490 and friends and does
>not use RACE. RACE was an early experiment and there is no reason to
>maintain it.

Dear Stephane:  I would like to agree with you, I prefer to call them 
ML.org.  However, Verisign has been calling the RACE encoded domains "IDN" 
for quite a long time.

That testbed was a disaster for our firm.  PIR is poised on the brink of 
driving another nail in our coffin.

Thank you for your comments.

Cordially, BobC