At 17:42 08/03/2012, Shawn Steele wrote:

How do these tables stay in-sync? I mean, what happens when it disagrees with what is actually in the DNS zone files?

Dear Shawn, the need for synchronized multilinguistic (on languages) and polylinguistic (same data in different language) is a general need that can only be currently addressed in an opendata context by a registry or DDDS international system, or by an extended DDDS mutually operated architecture. It would be interesting to know what Microsoft, Google, and others would have to propose. I would be interested in working on a joint exploratory draft on this issue which is universal and not limited to the Internet. This could be part of the JTC1/SG32/WG2 effort, or a totally separate project. It should permit contributions by everyone to be kept synchronized within a registrant defined TTL and to be freely accessed for validity check of table versions and updates. Best jfc