Robert, By the sounds of it, you slept through the last release on Feb 26th, I hope you had a good flight ;) Judging by Ken's announcement, they are doing pretty much the same type of release for this one as well. At this time VeriSign is still using RACE but not the same flavour as they started with in November. The same goes for name prep as well. In the last release you where able to use the RWI bulk loader for single entries, yes. I trust nothing has changed in the iteration. As for resolution...it goes way beyond we resellers. Instead VeriSign is using every person registering these names as guinea pigs, as well as affecting Registrar market share by introducing an unstable element into this business. (unfairly IMHO) Personally I strongly believe in the Idea of ML names but I have real issues with VeriSign "fast tracking" the work being done by the IETF working group on internationalized domains and charging people full price to participate in this "Public Preview Program" (gee I wonder where they learnt that trick from....MS maybe! ;) To add fuel to the fire, a company (Walid) this week announced that it was awarded a patent based on the work that is currently being done by the IETF (http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/03/27/patents.slow.IETF.idg/index.htm l) This story is a little off from the standpoint that it implies the IETF may has to pay for something...which is ridiculous due to the fact that they (the IETF) do not profit from ML names. In reality VeriSign might have to ante up <g>.. I'm keeping my eye on this issue as it may prove mighty interesting. Further more, I have a feeling that we will see resolution this year. VeriSign might have to pull a trick out of New.net's hat and create a browser plug-in if they really have too. One way or another these names will resolve in their native format. Remember that over 900,000 ML names have been registered collectively by all registrars participating in VeriSign's testbed. They have to make this work eventually other wise 900,000 people make a pretty big lynch mob ;) Hat's off to Tucows though for staying the course and keeping up with the IETF's attempted standards track and not using company's such a i-DNS or Walid and their proprietary solutions. (Dare I say I had a hand in that during my tenure at Tucows ;) Cheers, James James M Woods Chief Operations Officer Basic Fusion Inc. www.basicfusion.com f. 905.426.5940 m. 416.889.7977 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Sent: March 30, 2001 2:51 AM To: Opensrs-Discuss Subject: Maybe I'm just thick... re the latest Reseller Update pardon....? Multilingual names snip..... It's Friday - this must be Rome. Obviously I slept through the entire flight! I can see that it looks like there will be extra language capability built in .. somewhere. Is this part of the RACE thing? yes/no? maybe. Will we be able to actually use it for single (bulk entry?) registrations, and lastly of course - _when_ will such names actually resolve in their native format - is there a time line for this or are the reseller again acting as guinea pigs? Robert
