[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by Jeff

so...
i thought they had seperate idn names for .com .net and .cn ?

and i thought the ones from the singapore company were gonna be the ones to do the switch... so you'r esaying they're essentially gonna rearrange the .com.cn's

(so what does happen to the singapore company? they weren't doing .com.cn's but their own .com .net .china and .japan - what happens to those?)

Apart from China, they will disappear like the morning dew. Within China, I think you get this in combination with .com.cn and .net.cn and that is what they really are, except because of the DNS tinkering the dot CN isn't currently required for the IDN form. If China want its IDNs installed in the ICANN root, it is going to have to play by the rules. There may be some scope for negociation, but ICANN isn't going to let it highjack the whole system.

Dave