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The User Experience with New TLDs: How to Avoid the Junk Mail File or 'User Unknown'

• Comment posted May 26, 2011 7:01 am PDT — by Patrick Vande Walle
  Indeed. I did a similar post two years ago, in which I suggested this should be part of the outreach program that ICANN should launch.  Two years have passed, but I am still not convinced that most programmers are aware…

A Tribute to the STI (Special Trademarks Initiative Team)

• Comment posted Feb 22, 2011 9:23 pm PST — by Patrick Vande Walle
  George, I was not part of the STI WG, but provided input from the ALAC side. With regard to the fourth DAG, I commented on this particular issue, and so did the ALAC. Response time is only one factor. My…

ICANN (TBD): Why is ICANN Always to Blame and What to Do About It

• Comment posted Jun 09, 2010 9:53 am PDT — by Patrick Vande Walle
  Constantine, The "trick" to join the BC is to have different hats. You could for example apply under the name of your consulting business, and work on a TLD application under a different hat in parallel. It is apparently accepted…

Berlin the Latest New TLD Battleground?

• Comment posted Dec 22, 2009 8:44 am PST — by Patrick Vande Walle
  I have seen the work done by Dirk and his folks over the last 6 years, as you mention. They have invested a lot of work and resources, financial and other, into this. It is sad to see a latecomer…

IDN and Email: The Harsh Reality

• Comment posted Nov 23, 2009 10:10 am PST — by Patrick Vande Walle
  James, Actually, it is a bit more complicated than that. the EAI WG works on how a SMTP server and POP3/IMAP4 server deals with Unicode, mostly on the left hand side of the e-mail address. I understand from the original…

First gTLD Signed: Dot Gov

• Comment posted Feb 06, 2009 10:28 am PST — by Patrick Vande Walle
  I do not wish to minimize the efforts of the US General Services Administration to deploy DNSSEC, but I would note that the first sponsored gTLD to be signed was actually .museum. See Musedoma's request to ICANN, and its subsequent…

IGF Meeting Blacklisted

• Comment posted Sep 21, 2008 5:23 pm PDT — by Patrick Vande Walle
  In this particular case, it was Spamassassin which assigned the bad score, based on the fact that the IGF IP address was originally on 2 blacklists (cbl.abuseat.org and uribl.swinog.ch) and other behaviour patterns. So, it is not just scoring on…

• Comment posted Sep 18, 2008 6:36 pm PDT — by Patrick Vande Walle
  The issue here is not port 587 vs 25. Even through the submission port, the e-mail will have one "Received" header indicating the IP address of the host it is originating from. If there is a NAT it will look…

Soon in a Mail Box Near You: Internationalized Email Addresses

• Comment posted Sep 09, 2008 6:52 am PDT — by Patrick Vande Walle
  This is more like running them up the flagpole to see if anyone salutes. You are correct these are not standards yet. This is why I suggest to pressure software vendors. When they will realize that most of their markets…

Gartner on New Generic Top Level Domains

• Comment posted Aug 13, 2008 4:22 pm PDT — by Patrick Vande Walle
  David, I happen to live in a border region, with 4 countries less than 50 miles away. Even something as global as a Coca Cola can is actually heavily localized. The text on the can mentions the ccTLD. A different…

ICANN to Auction New Generic Top Level Domains

• Comment posted Aug 11, 2008 11:39 am PDT — by Patrick Vande Walle
  On another blog, an ICANN employee commented that : "individual review and comparative evaluation will still play a key role in the new gTLD process. The paper should have made clear that auctions are being considered as a tie-breaking mechanism,…

IPv6 Considered a Problem by Some Users

• Comment posted Aug 08, 2008 10:15 am PDT — by Patrick Vande Walle
  Jeroen, you are right this is mostly a DNS resolver issue in home CPEs. Unfortunately, there is not much the user can do. The vast majority of users will not hack the firmware of their home router. Also, more and…

Proposal for .sport, a New Top-Level Domain

• Comment posted Jun 13, 2008 7:50 am PDT — by Patrick Vande Walle
  Please define what you consider a loser TLD. I have seen small ccTLDs doing very well with only 50.000 names. It is useful to try to understand why the sponsored TLDs were not a big success. In my opinion, the…

European Commission Pushes IPv6 Forward

• Comment posted Jun 01, 2008 7:00 pm PDT — by Patrick Vande Walle
  ISPs must have been particularly blind and deaf to ignore that many of their customers behind NATs and double NATs are unable to use some applications. Customers just do not call their ISP and ask for IPv6. They just complain…

Censorship: A Threat to the Stability and Security of the DNS?

• Comment posted Jun 01, 2008 6:42 pm PDT — by Patrick Vande Walle
  Robert, The post you are referring to makes it clear this is not a DNS issue, but a BGP one.

Whois: If You Want Privacy, Pay For It

• Comment posted Nov 14, 2007 7:28 am PST — by Patrick Vande Walle
  @ Suresh: You are basically confirming what I said. There is no privacy in the current whois system and if I want one, I need to pay for it. Even if provided as a free service, the extra step to…

Developing Internet Standards: How Can the Engineering Community and the Users Meet?

• Comment posted Sep 21, 2007 10:47 am PDT — by Patrick Vande Walle
  Paul Hoffman said: - The statement that There is this often expressed feeling in the engineering community that technological choices are politically neutral by design is not supported by facts. I cannot find many statements to that effect, and I…

The Inextricable Issue of Internationalized Domain Names

• Comment posted Jul 06, 2007 8:37 am PDT — by Patrick Vande Walle
  There is nothing intrinsically "wrong" with allocating 24 TLDs or more for India.  From my own experience living in countries where several languages are used, there is a strong link between language, culture and political and social recognition. ICANN may…

Vint in International Herald Tribune on IDNs

• Comment posted Oct 31, 2006 6:08 am PST — by Patrick Vande Walle
  Paul, you may be right I kind of misquoted the article. The core of my post is still that the ICANN/IETF community cannot seem to deliver by the date most people actually want it. It would all be quite easier…

The Blurr-Cade Proposal on Root Zone Oversight

• Comment posted Jul 26, 2006 6:07 am PDT — by Patrick Vande Walle
  Milton: You say that the Burr proposal "calls upon the US to issue assurances that they won’t abuse their unilateral power. They call upon it to renew its commitment to privatization". Unfortunately, unilateral assurances are not enough if there are…

• Comment posted Jul 25, 2006 6:01 am PDT — by Patrick Vande Walle
  Milton, I do not think both points are mutually exclusive. Yes, ICANN needs be accountable to the world community, which is much larger than just its current stakeholders who, for the most part, have a business to protect. The Burr…

.XXX and Conservative Groups

• Comment posted May 18, 2006 8:18 am PDT — by Patrick Vande Walle
  These corporations have an interest in dot com being the only commercially viable TLD. ICANN has approved dot aero, dot museum, and now dot mobi and dot tel none of which could ever possibly compete with dot com. I am…

Ask Vint Cerf: The Road Ahead for Top-Level Domains

• Comment posted Jan 17, 2006 9:39 am PST — by Patrick Vande Walle
  Vint, With .cat, ICANN has set a precedent for language-specific TLDs. With about 6800 languages on earth, how will ICANN decide which language-specific TLDs are relevant and how will the DNS infrastructure be able to cope with potentially 6800 new…