Not yet NWIs: Support for IDNs
Hi, At RIPE 80, Denis asked for feedback on some items that are not yet NWIs, including internationalized domain names. My feedback is that the RIPE Database should support internationalized e-mail addresses. The RIPE region includes a number of countries that use a non-Latin script. Most of these countries have an IDN version of their ccTLD and there are also a number of IDN gTLDs serving these language communities. People who register in those domains will want to use them for e-mail. If an organization using an IDN is required to set up a secondary e-mail address to register information in the RIPE Database there is a greater risk that the published contact information will go stale as it is not the organization's primary domain. That would undermine the utility of the RIPE Database. Kind regards, Leo Vegoda
Leo Vegoda via db-wg wrote on 21/05/2020 23:35:
At RIPE 80, Denis asked for feedback on some items that are not yet NWIs, including internationalized domain names.
My feedback is that the RIPE Database should support internationalized e-mail addresses. The RIPE region includes a number of countries that use a non-Latin script. Most of these countries have an IDN version of their ccTLD and there are also a number of IDN gTLDs serving these language communities.
this looks like an offer to write a brief NWI, no? :-) Nick
Hi Nick, On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 8:51 AM Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
Leo Vegoda via db-wg wrote on 21/05/2020 23:35:
At RIPE 80, Denis asked for feedback on some items that are not yet NWIs, including internationalized domain names.
My feedback is that the RIPE Database should support internationalized e-mail addresses. The RIPE region includes a number of countries that use a non-Latin script. Most of these countries have an IDN version of their ccTLD and there are also a number of IDN gTLDs serving these language communities.
this looks like an offer to write a brief NWI, no? :-)
I am happy to draft some text for the problem statement and circulate it on the list. Kind regards, Leo Vegoda
I would like to offer strong support for this from the APNIC region. RDAP has an ability to handle this, and I feel is rapidly becoming the visible super-set of behaviour we need in Registry to record and propagate information. We still use RPSL encoded state in Whois for public record and contact information, and we should strive to support IDN emails. They are needed, and they are wanted. As Leo points out, as the various jurisdictions for administration move from ASCII to IDN domains, the utility of contact information which remains in their second-rank domain drops significantly. -George On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 8:35 AM Leo Vegoda via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net> wrote:
Hi,
At RIPE 80, Denis asked for feedback on some items that are not yet NWIs, including internationalized domain names.
My feedback is that the RIPE Database should support internationalized e-mail addresses. The RIPE region includes a number of countries that use a non-Latin script. Most of these countries have an IDN version of their ccTLD and there are also a number of IDN gTLDs serving these language communities.
People who register in those domains will want to use them for e-mail. If an organization using an IDN is required to set up a secondary e-mail address to register information in the RIPE Database there is a greater risk that the published contact information will go stale as it is not the organization's primary domain. That would undermine the utility of the RIPE Database.
Kind regards,
Leo Vegoda
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George Michaelson -
Leo Vegoda -
Nick Hilliard