Let's go ahead.

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
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I agree with Harold's suggestion.

The PIR certainly needs to be held accountable for their actions and the
NCUC is in a position to demand such accountability.

Valerie

----- Original Message -----
From: Harold Feld <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 7:16 AM
Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] PIR and stability and consumer protection?


> It seems to me that perhaps it is appropriate for the executive
> committee of the consticuency to send a polite letter of inquiry from
> the consticuency to PIR asking if the notification is correct and, if
> so, what steps will be taken to inform and mitigate hardship to the
> non-commercial user who registered for these names in good faith.
>
> Harold Feld
>
> Marc Schneiders wrote:
>
> >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:
> >
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------

-
> >PIR wird multilinguale .ORG Domains nun doch löschen
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------

-
> >
> >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
> >
> >
>