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]> To: <[log in to unmask]> 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 > > > > >