ICANN participation

Hi bwhhisc, thanks for your comment on DNAME and alaising. The reason I have been very careful about discussing alaising is that the question of aliasing is what needs to be defined and answered. Before we fully understand what people believe aliaising means and what kind of functionality they tie to aliasing, we really cannot talk about a solution.

However, I understand that as we are moving close to the finalization of the process for introduction of new gTLDs and the IDNC fast track for introduction of "IDN ccTLDs" the question about aliasing might be re-opened. And so it looks like we may need to let some things run in parallel. For that reason I talked to some individual from the technical community about their view on this topic. And whether it might be feasible to test how DNAME would work as an aliasing mechnism between two TLDs. The initial result was surprisingly not positive. I admit that I had expected it to work, but it did not in a laboratory environment. Some more discussions are going on in technical fora and it is possible that we will go ahead and examine the test further. However, this is where we stand today. Now, it is possible that there are other solutions to aliasing than DNAME that needs to be tried out. I believe it would be good to try to have/find a standard solution to aliasing functionality so that if aliasing is used then it is done the same way across all the TLDs using it.

I will raise the question again in technical fora and see if they have examined things further and found other results and/or what potentially needs to be done for doing so.

Tina