[ALAC] Fwd: [soac-discussion] Universal Acceptance of Domains - 14 March Discussion Scheduled at the ICANN Meeting in Costa Rica

Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond ocl at gih.com
Wed Feb 29 18:47:26 UTC 2012


Hello Alan,

I meant the newly approved Dot-ex-ex-ex which might be banned in some
regions of the world.
Kind regards,

Olivier

On 29/02/2012 19:17, Alan Greenberg wrote :
> Olivier, did you mean .XXX in the sense of any generic TLD, or the
> explicit (pun intended) .xxx TLD recently approved.
>
> Alan
>
> At 29/02/2012 12:54 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
>> A forwarded message, in preparation of Costa Rica meeting.
>> Possible controversy regarding this subject, with a question about
>> universal acceptance of .XXX
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Olivier
>>
>> -------- Message original --------
>> Sujet:  [soac-discussion] Universal Acceptance of Domains - 14 March
>> Discussion Scheduled at the ICANN Meeting in Costa Rica
>> Date :  Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:02:03 -0800
>> De :    David Olive <david.olive at icann.org>
>> Pour :  soac-discussion at icann.org <soac-discussion at icann.org>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> To Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees Leadership:
>>
>> Universal Acceptance of Domains is an ongoing effort within ICANN
>> dedicated
>> to raising awareness of issues relating to ensuring that all domain
>> names
>> work correctly in software on the Internet. ICANN initiated the
>> project when
>> issues were first identified relating to the earlier rounds of adding
>> new
>> gTLDs. For example, some software and web sites have made the assumption
>> that top-level domains were always either 2 or 3 characters long,
>> which is
>> problematic for a number of newer TLDs. More attention has been given to
>> these issues with the adoption of IDN top-level domains, and with the
>> expectation that many more ASCII and IDN gTLDs will be added to the
>> DNS in
>> the near future.
>>
>> In order to best assure successful adoption of these various new
>> domains,
>> and that software is implemented correctly to cater for all available
>> domains, collaboration is needed between software developers and
>> vendors,
>> network administrators and others.
>>
>> ICANN is conducting outreach within the ICANN community to develop a
>> plan to
>> best improve awareness of these issues. A working group meeting on this
>> topic is scheduled to take place during the ICANN meeting in Costa
>> Rica on
>> Wednesday, 14 March 2012. This will serve as a good opportunity for all
>> involved to share their experiences and suggestions. These
>> suggestions will
>> feed into ICANN's future work in this area. *We hope that
>> representatives*
>> *from various Advisory Committees and constituencies can attend this
>> working*
>> *session and provide us with their valuable feedback.*
>>
>> Please direct your questions or comments on this topic to Nadia Sokolova
>> <nadia.sokolova at icann.org <mailto:nadia.sokolova at icann.org>>. Nadia is
>> working in the DNS root zone management
>> area in IANA department and manages this project.
>>
>>
>> David A. Olive
>> Vice President, Policy Development Support
>> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
>> 1101 New York Avenue, NW - Suite 930
>> Washington, D.C.    20005
>> Office: 202.570.7126      Mobile:  202.341.3611
>>
>>
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-- 
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
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