by Stephane Van Gelder on February 12, 2008
Dans un pays hôte où les langues et les scriptes sont si nombreux (22 langues officielles), personne ne sera étonné de voir les IDN occuper le devant de la scène. Ces noms internationalisés – comprenez des noms de domaine acceptant des caractères autres que le seul code ASCII, des accents français aux caractères mandarins en passant par le cyrillique et tout autre alphabet “exotique” – ont fait l’objet d’un atelier dès le lundi à New Delhi. Le sujet a déjà fait couler beaucoup d’encre et engendré de nombreux maux de têtes. Le défi : incorporer environ 100 000 de ces caractères venant des langues du monde entier dans le système de nommage, au niveau de l’extension.
by Tina Dam on February 6, 2008
ICANN hears this question all the time at meetings, events, in different online forums, on the idn.icann.org wiki, and in emails and phone calls. The great challenge is it the answer isn’t the specific “as of this date” answer so many people want to hear. Because of the nature of some critical functions that still needs to be finalized, such as for example the policy process, we’re only able to provide an estimate.
Right now both the GNSO and the ccNSO are taking a look at how IDNs can be introduced or delegated at the top-level – how you can get, say, all-Arabic-cahracters after the dot in a domain name. ICANN have processes for delgation of ccTLDs and there have been a couple of rounds in the past years for introduction of new gTLDs, but none of these included IDN TLDs.
by Kieren McCarthy on January 23, 2008
It is very inconsiderate of five-sixths of the world to fail to speak English, but then we are reliably informed that they feel pretty much the same way.
And so while the Internet has done an extraordinary job of transcending physical borders, language remains a pretty significant issue if you want to actually communicate with your new online neighbour.
When it comes to ICANN’s work, this comes with an extra layer of complexity thanks to the fact that the vast majority of English speakers wouldn’t know what an English speaker was talking about when discussing many of the topics that concern ICANN on a day-to-day basis.
by Veni Markovski on January 11, 2008
There have been some reports in the past few days about possible “division” of the Internet in Russia, tied in with speculation that the forthcoming Cyrillic domain names will be used to grant the Russian government more control over its citizens. The source of this speculation appears to be an article published in UK newspaper The Guardian. That article was then reproduced in a number of Russian news articles, most of them quoting a direct translation published by SecurityLab.
by Tina Dam on December 29, 2007
If there is one question or concern related to IDNs that have been asked continuously in the past year it has to be that of internationalizing versus localizing the domain name space. In other words, questions such as:
“Well, but I don’t have a keyboard that enables me to type in all these new characters, so I cannot type in these IDN addresses, why are you allowing this to happen?”
by Tina Dam on November 26, 2007
The IDNwiki was released at 4.10am PDT 15 October 2007 (UTC – 7hours). Now, 6 weeks later, here are some updated user statistics and related information. As mentioned previously we will also provide a report that focuses on the initial results with the evaluation of fully localized domain names, as the wiki has been set [...]
by Tina Dam on October 16, 2007
The IDNwikis were released at 4.10am PDT 15 October 2007 (UTC – 7hours). While the primary reason for the IDNwikis is to evaluate fully localized domain names in different applications, I thought it might be interesting with some user stats and related information from here.
There was immediate traffic on all wikis, with the area with [...]
by Kim Davies on October 12, 2007
Earlier this week, we inserted eleven new top-level domains in the DNS root zone. These represent the term “test” translated into ten languages, in ten different scripts (Chinese is represented in two different scripts, and Arabic script is used by two different languages).
This blog post is not about that. (If you’re interested about it, read [...]
by Baher Esmat on September 9, 2007
في 23 أغسطس 2007 وضعت الآيكان اللمسات النهائية لخطة التقييم الخاصة بإدراج أسماء النطاقات الدولية في منطقة الجذر. وجاءت التعديلات الأخيرة على الخطة بناء على التعليقات الواردة على القائمة البريدية لأسماء النطاقات الدولية http://forum.icann.org/lists/idn-discuss/ وكذلك من خلال التشاور مع اللجان الاستشارية الفنية للآيكان. وقد أقر مجلس إدارة الآيكان في اجتماعه الأخير في 14 أغسطس [...]
by Veni Markovski on August 8, 2007
In a little over a month (September 10-12), IT professionals from around the world will meet at the Vatutinki residence near Moscow, Russia.
Among them will be, from ICANN, Theresa Swinehart, Tina Dam and Veni Markovski, as well as Fred Baker and Patrik Faltstrom (CISCO/IETF), Jaap Akkerhuis (DNSsec/NLnet Labs), Timothy Lowe (RIPE), and Lynn St. Amour [...]
