[ga-roots] Verisign's testbed

["babybows.com" <webmaster@babybows.com>]

Stefan Probst writes:  "Customers in "UNICODE countries" therefore cannot
participate in Verisign's "Phase 3.2" (current) and "Phase 3.3" (which
should start soon). A "testbed" where the testing cannot be done is rather
useless."

With regard to this "testbed", it should be noted that the current second
phase of resolution makes the registrations accessible through the
controlled, second-level domains, mltbd.com, mltbd.net, and mltbd.org.

At present there are 36 registrars participating in the testbed program
http://www.verisign-grs.com/idn/customer.html

I would be interested in knowing how many of these registrars have actually
moved forward into this second phase (inaugurated on May 2).

It would seem (from my limited understanding of this matter) that registrars
would have to incur some expense in order to adjust client zone files to
reflect the mltbd second-level domain.   Have all of these registrars moved
forward into phase two, or are they simply waiting for phase three to be
announced (without actually participating in a proper "test")?

Perhaps a representative from the registrar community could look into this
matter?  The NC does have within their Business Plan, "Request ICANN to
review and evaluate the Verisign Multilingual Testbed prior to live launch
of multilingual domain name registrations."


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