Quoting Bennett Oprysa on Sunday November 26, 2006:
| > Is auDA forcing registrars to implement IDN registrations?
| 
| basically, yes.
| 
| Registrars have been informed that the registry is being modified to handle 
| IDNs. We don't have to offer this functionality, but if another registrar 
| does, and they create a domain with IDN hostnames and that domain is then 
| transferred by the registrant to us, our system will not be able to 
| correctly handle that domain.

How is that different from is someone present a hostname like
{idn-label}.com, or even {idn-label}.cynosure.com.au; both of which are
legal today? The hostname non-compliant software will see will look like
plain ASCII.

kim