JPRS report for 2008

[gammascalper]

Summary of 2008's activities:

English
http://jprs.co.jp/doc/report/registry-report-2008-e.pdf

Japanese
http://jprs.co.jp/doc/report/registry-report-2008.pdf

Lots of Japanese domain name activity. This caught my eye:

"Promotion of Internationalized Email Address Standardization
Regarding activities to standardize internationalized email addresses, JPRS takes part in the
preparation of a standardization proposal, as a member of the relevant working group. In
particular, JPRS is in charge of compatibility with conventional mail systems. As of January 2009,
JPRS was in the process of obtaining final approval by IETF and issuing an RFC."

[Rubber Duck]

On 29 September 2008, JPRS publicized an interim report on the technical evaluation of DNAME,
one of the technical candidates to be employed in implementing IDN ccTLDs. When DNAME is
used to implement new IDN ccTLDs corresponding to existing ccTLDs, it may have some
influence on root DNS servers or ISPs’ cache DNS servers. These influences were evaluated in an
existing DNS server implementation, based on discussions made at CENTR and APTLD.