Thanks for the information Kim.

Regards
Jarrod Hollingworth

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kim Davies [mailto:kim§cynosure.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, 29 November 2002 2:29 PM
> To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
> Subject: Re: [DNS] international domain news
> 
> The stringprep, punycode and idna specs are undergoing final review.
> They are sitting in the RFC Editor queue. They should be published in
> the coming weeks/months.
> 
> Any "pre-registered" IDN's wont work. I have surveyed many key zone
> files to collect a list of those matching "??--" and they will be
> discarded for consideration as the ultimate prefix. Additionally, almost
> every registry bans the registration of domains matching that pattern
> (including .au)
> 
> No-one know when it will "go live", but I don't believe you will be able
> to register them in .au soon. There are substantial policy issues that
> need to be worked through before deployment, particularly given our
> native language is English.
> 
> kim