As I have said, I think it is appropriate for the Consticuency to ask the registry. This utilizes ICANN as a forum for discussion without the need to trigger a regulatory-type process. What is needed at the moment is dialog, not regulation. I am less worried about a mandatory "stop" process than in inviting PIR to discuss the issue. I hope they will welcome the opportunity for input and discussion. Harold Thierry Amoussougbo wrote: >Dear all, > >I think that it is difficult to react now because ICANN did not agree on >this and also we did not say anything to stop it as NCC. ? >If you think that we can use official procedure for this kind of situation >let us use it. If not I'm not seeing how we can stop this because it was >not authorized. > >Best regards. > > >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 >E-mail : [log in to unmask] > > > > > Marc Schneiders > <[log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] > > cc: > Sent by: Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS] PIR and stability and consumer > Non-Commercial User protection? > Constituency > <NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSE > RV.SYR.EDU> > > > 08/01/2004 05:03 PM > Please respond to > Marc Schneiders > > > > > > >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 > > > > > >