On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 04:42:20PM +0100, Harald Alvestrand <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 18 lines which said: > No, it means that you can register bortzmeyer.ch on <rogue root 1>, and > someone else can register bortzmeyer.ch on <rogue root 2>. > > There are multiple roots serving TLDs having Arabic script names, but ICANN > doesn't. Ah, OK, thanks for the explanation. But it is not specific to Arabic, it is a general problem of competing roots. The fact that they refer to competing roots is not obvious at all from the draft. It could as well be a reference to two encoding systems (as if Punycode and RACE were both in use). _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf