[governance] Re: Response to Stephane Bortzmeyer on IDN

[Peter Dambier]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> 
> For those who are in hurry, let's synthetize: IDN (the general idea,
> unlike "IDNA" which is a specific solution, the only standard one, and
> specified in RFC 3490) is a very old idea, probably as old as the
> naming of machines. There have been many talks, many discussions, many
> proposals (most of them so lacking practical details that they have
> been rightfully abandoned). Many people participated. It was often
> very confusing.
> 
> Only one proposal was done in a cooperative way, in an open forum,
> with the intent of being a standard, the IETF IDN Working Group,
> which, after many painful years, arrived in march 2003 to RFC 3490 and
> its friends.
> 
> Most (all?) of the other ways were done by small companies whose
> intent was not to suggest a workable and realistic way but to make
> money fast by selling IDN to people gullible enough to buy them. (Not
> only small companies, after all, Verisign was in it, too.) These small
> companies, like i-dns.net, were very eager to file patents but much
> less ready to work with other people on a common standard.
> 
> Most of the other ways were technically very different and typically
> involved custom name servers, like the ones sold by the company
> already mentioned.
> 

Small companies like

Status China Root

soa("XN--55QX5D.","2007022304","CDNS3.CNNIC.NET.CN","210.52.214.86").
soa("XN--55QX5D.","2007022304","CDNS4.CNNIC.NET.CN","61.145.114.120").
soa("XN--55QX5D.","2007022304","CDNS5.CNNIC.NET.CN","61.139.76.55").
soa("XN--55QX5D.","2007022304","HAWK2.CNNIC.NET.CN","159.226.6.185").

soa("XN--FIQS8S.","2007022304","CDNS3.CNNIC.NET.CN","210.52.214.86").
soa("XN--FIQS8S.","2007022303","CDNS4.CNNIC.NET.CN","61.145.114.120").
soa("XN--FIQS8S.","2007022304","CDNS5.CNNIC.NET.CN","61.139.76.55").
soa("XN--FIQS8S.","2007022304","HAWK2.CNNIC.NET.CN","159.226.6.185").

soa("XN--IO0A7I.","2007022304","CDNS3.CNNIC.NET.CN","210.52.214.86").
soa("XN--IO0A7I.","2007022304","CDNS4.CNNIC.NET.CN","61.145.114.120").
soa("XN--IO0A7I.","2007022304","CDNS5.CNNIC.NET.CN","61.139.76.55").
soa("XN--IO0A7I.","2007022304","HAWK2.CNNIC.NET.CN","159.226.6.185").

http://CNNIC.NET.CN/en/index/index.htm

And the costum namesever here is bind 9.4.0 rc2.
It used to work with earlier bind too
and it runs with djbdns too.

Kind regards
Peter and Karin Dambier

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