[At-Large] ICANN IDN Laboratory test results online
Dear At-Large Community The positive IDN Laboratory test results that have just been posted on www.icann.org - see directly at: http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-4-07mar07.htm It concludes that "during these tests, we were unable to detect any deviation at all in any part of the system from the normal behaviour of DNS systems. The addition of IDN strings seems to have had no measurable effect at all on the qualitative performance of the test systems." These positive results will enable ICANN to move forward with the test of phase II. Phase II is currently under development but will be communicated as soon as possible. Hong ALAC IDN Liaison
Hong Xue ha scritto:
Dear At-Large Community
The positive IDN Laboratory test results that have just been posted on www.icann.org <http://www.icann.org/> - see directly at:
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-4-07mar07.htm
It concludes that "during these tests, we were unable to detect any deviation at all in any part of the system from the normal behaviour of DNS systems. The addition of IDN strings seems to have had no measurable effect at all on the qualitative performance of the test systems. "
These positive results will enable ICANN to move forward with the test of phase II. Phase II is currently under development but will be communicated as soon as possible.
This is really a good development... I really hope that we can have full deployment of IDNs as soon as possible. It is very important for many parts of the world! -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------
The positive IDN Laboratory test results that have just been posted on www.icann.org <http://www.icann.org/> -
This is really a good development... I really hope that we can have full deployment of IDNs as soon as possible. It is very important for many parts of the world!
Honestly, I would have been astonished if this hadn't worked, as would everyeone else in the DNS technical community. All this test verified is that a few widely used pieces of DNS software don't have any lurking code specifically written to break IDNs. I gather that the IETF is reasonably close to a technical hack to deal with Unicode version issues. This leaves the intractible political problems of defining what name strings are "too similar" to register. How are we doing with that? Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://johnlevine.com, Mayor "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.
Hong Xue ha scritto:
Dear At-Large Community
The positive IDN Laboratory test results that have just been posted on www.icann.org <http://www.icann.org/> - see directly at:
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-4-07mar07.htm
It concludes that "during these tests, we were unable to detect any deviation at all in any part of the system from the normal behaviour of DNS systems. The addition of IDN strings seems to have had no measurable effect at all on the qualitative performance of the test systems. "
These positive results will enable ICANN to move forward with the test of phase II. Phase II is currently under development but will be communicated as soon as possible.
This is really a good development... I really hope that we can have full deployment of IDNs as soon as possible. It is very important for many parts of the world! -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------
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Could somebody describe a possible 'failure scenario' for the tests? Siavash
Siavash Shahshahani wrote:
Could somebody describe a possible 'failure scenario' for the tests? Siavash
IANAE (I am not an expert), but what about, for instance, some code that breaks somewhere because of the hyphen ("-") in the TLD? We had (and some still exists) code that broke because of the length of the TLD, that was assumed to be max. 3, with the exception of .arpa. Having been a developer for many years, I can guarantee that there's no limit to what can be put in the code without apparent reason. Once I'll teel you about a software released in the late 70's by a major company that had a check that a date must be lower than 1984, that an Orwell fan put in as a joke, and that forgot to take out before the final build... Cheers, Roberto
Could somebody describe a possible 'failure scenario' for the tests? Siavash
IANAE (I am not an expert), but what about, for instance, some code that breaks somewhere because of the hyphen ("-") in the TLD? We had (and some still exists) code that broke because of the length of the TLD, that was assumed to be max. 3, with the exception of .arpa.
Hypothetically, you're right, any of those might have happened if someone deliberately put anti-IDN code into the DNS software. But in reality, I'm sure the people who maintain the small set of packages they checked had already made sure they worked. It was a non-event. Where do we stand on the "too similar" issue? Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://johnlevine.com, Mayor "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.
Siavash Shahshahani ha scritto:
Could somebody describe a possible 'failure scenario' for the tests?
I never thought that they could fail... anyway, it deprives of one argument those who oppose any innovation on the grounds of "it's never been done before" :-) -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------
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