ICANN Moves Forward Towards Introduction Of Internationalized Top Level Labels

[Rubber Duck]

http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-02jun07.htm

Today, ICANN posted a set of draft procedures describing how IANA will manage the insertion, administration and removal of internationalized top-level labels (as delegated A-records) in the DNS root zone. These procedures are intended to guide an evaluation plan providing for the insertion and monitoring of sample IDNs into the root zone later this year.

[Rubber Duck]

And the Duck's respone!

Dear Iana,

I am very interested in the IANA Root Zone Procedures for Test IDN Deployment as we already have thousands of IDN names.

I have to say, I am left completely baffled by the proposals.

If the Labels inserted have no value, then they are unlikely to have any traffic either. What exactly are you proposing to monitor?

Even if you put in the Aliases from Dot Com that are included in the DNAME, the amount of traffic you are likely to get is minimal. We are monitoring traffic on IDN.com with the ASCII extension. The traffic is still currently tiny. We would expect that even with the DNAME Aliases of Dot Com proposed by Verisign that initially the traffic is going to be very small. The only extensions that could conceivably get significant traffic at this stage is the IDN version of dot CN, and even then only if the ISPs in China stop intercepting the traffic before it goes to the ICANN rootservers and directing directly to CNNIC.

If you wish to find out more about IDN Traffic and its monetization (currently that is a laugh), then please visit, DNLocal dot Com where our experts will be more than happy to assist.

Please if you are going to do some testing, then test something meaningful!

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

[Burnsinternet]

Can anyone visualize a box turtle migration?



Term: Herd of turtles

Definition: a slow start (Southeastern USA)

Usage: Leaving the house after numerous delays "And we're off like a herd of turtles"

Explanation: The phrase belongs to a particular breed of imaginative sarcasm, deriving, I think, from an inclination to stay as polite as possible. The accompanying visual is rather charming, if you think about it.

Trivia: The "herd of turtles" phenomenon is most common in the Wilmington/Cape Fear area of North Carolina.

From: http://www.whatdoesthatmean.com/node/2009

[Drewbert]

Dear Dave,

We don't give a shit about your monetization of IDN traffic. In fact, when we get barely-coherent emails from silly people like you, it makes us want to put road blocks in the way of IDN.

Take your money-focused IDN preaching somewhere else. The IANA is concerne about technical matters. No moonies need apply.

Yours, etc.

IANA.

[Rubber Duck]

Yes, I dare say, but they are really going to start pissing a lot of other people off very soon.

We might as well accuse them of time wasting now as later, after they have been testing all kinds of hypothetical extension that most people won't even attempt to guess at, and won't be able to interpret the results even if there are any!

[Burnsinternet]

They are busy with .asia planning right now, I guess.

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by Burnsinternet

They are busy with .asia planning right now, I guess.

Yes, I understand that they are trying to formulate a contingency plans for unviable registries.

[Burnsinternet]

LOL! They should have thought of that long ago! When did .name come about?

[Drewbert]

IANA <> ICANN