Erick,

With regard to WHOIS in a multicultural environment,
please note the observation in this recent IETF draft:

5.4. Databases of Registered Names

In addition to their presence in the DNS, IDNs
introduce issues in other contexts in which domain
names are used.  In particular, the design and content
of databases that bind registered names to
information about the registrant (commonly described
as "whois" databases) will require review and
updating.  For example, the whois protocol itself
[RFC3912] has no standard capability for handling
non-ASCII text: one cannot search consistently for, or
report, either a DNS name or contact information that
is not in ASCII characters.
   This may provide some additional impetus for a
switch to IRIS [RFC3981] [RFC3982] but also raises a
number of other questions about what information, and
in what languages and scripts, should be included or
permitted in such databases.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iab-idn-nextsteps-06

Regards,
Danny

--- Erick Iriarte Ahon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Carlos
> 
> 2 points or 3 points.
> 
> 1. I really believed in a multistakeholder and 
> multicultural and based in diversity event (so
> almost one person per region)
> 
> 2. I think the best day could be December 5th.
> 
> 3. You have all the support of AR for anything.
> 
> Erick
> 
> 
> At 05:54 a.m. 18/10/2006, Carlos Afonso wrote:
> >People, the ICANN meeting planning committee in 
> >Sampa has reserved a large room for us for Dec.5 
> >and 6. Please let me know which day would be 
> >best for our whois+mou+privacy meeting, so I can 
> >let them free up the other one.
> >
> >frt rgds
> >
> >--c.a.
> >
> >--
> >
> >Carlos A. Afonso
> >diretor de planejamento
> >Rits - Rede de Informações para o Terceiro Setor
>
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