I wondered about this back in October when I read the ietf docs on this. I
thought, here's all the information I need to encode to RACE and start
registering names. But, the documentation stated at that the prefix **--
could be changed several times before the actual start of registration.
After playing with RACE, I saw people were actually betting on the bq--
prefix to stick.
Looking at the RACE.cgi documentation in the
OpenSRS_v.2.22_Perl_Client_Manual.pdf file, it states that "Names registered
in the fashion (directly as encoded RACE strings) without sending through
the Character Encoding type would not be recognized as multilingual names."
So each encoded RACE string has to have an encoding type associated with it.
Makes sense, as you could have the same RACE equivalents in say Japanese and
Chinese for different kanji representations.
James Woods responded to a direct mail about this confirming that this sort
of speculation is just that, speculation.
Cheers,
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: Merlin
To: Bill Wilson ; discuss-list@opensrs.org
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: multinational already started???
I just did a lookup as well, and there is about a zillion of them already
!!!!
I guess as a domain name can be almost anyting - it's not hard to put in
RACE names....
Seems like this should be up and running already though???
bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Wilson
To: discuss-list@opensrs.org
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 2:03 PM
Subject: multinational already started???
Hi.
I just got the multinational name client working. After encoding several
key names in RACE and looking them up in the whois directory, it seems
Japanese companies are already registering RACE encoded names, like:
bq--3ayeuvankjgq.com (name.com in Japanese)
Is the bq-- prefix already confirmed? What's going on?
Bill
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