[gnso-idn-wg] Re: Regarding WHOIS and language/scripts

["Charles Shaban" <cshaban@xxxxxxxx>]

Dear Bruce:

Script and maybe sometimes language. I support you and this is mainly
why I mentioned this, we do need to include this to have some kind of
standard approaches for the Whois.

Regards,

Charles

"Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Friday, December
29, 2006 at 4:57 AM +0000 wrote:
>Do you mean language or script here?
>
>With respect to language that would I assume only apply to the names
>of
>the fields in WHOIS.
>
>E.g "Technical Contact" in another language.
>
>With respect to the contents of the Fields - e.g "Bruce Tonkin" being
>the name of the Technical contact - I guess some names might be able
>to
>be represented in multiple scripts and some not.
>
>From a Melbourne IT perspective we will output WHOIS in UTF-8 format
>by
>default.   We may support other encodings - possibly using different
>WHOIS servers.
>
>Even with current non-IDN second level domains in .com, we are
>finding
>that people located in countries that are non-English speaking
>prefer to
>be able to supply their name in their preferred script.
>
>With respect to IDN based domains - the question then becomes do we
>simply output the name of the domain name in "xn--" format - which
>may
>not be rendered properly by WHOIS display software, or do we send the
>name out in a UTF-8 format which is probably likely to be handled by
>at
>least web based WHOIS display software (but perhaps not text-based
>port-43 WHOIS services).
>
>I don't see the issue of multiple scripts in WHOIS as being
>constrained
>to either IDN at the top level or the second level, but it is part of
>the wider evolution of using a wider range of scripts over the
>Internet.
>Some standardisation of approaches for WHOIS would be useful.
>
>Regards,
>Bruce Tonkin