by Craig Schwartz on September 15, 2008
On 10-11 September 2008, ICANN hosted its third Asia/Pacific regional gathering in Seoul, Korea. The regional gathering approach to broadening participation in the ICANN process for gTLD registries and ICANN-accredited registrars was first introduced in February 2005 in Brussels, Belgium. And, since that time, ICANN has conducted annually three outreach events – one each in the Asia/Pacific, Europe and North America regions. As the participation in the community continues to expand to all parts of the world, ICANN anticipates adjusting the model to include other areas such as Latin America/Caribbean Islands, South America, Africa and the Middle East.
by Kieren McCarthy on July 18, 2008
As with previous meetings, we have prepared a “briefing note” for Paris to act as a broad summary of what happened over the five days. It has been published on the Paris meeting site and we republish it below.
by Tina Dam on June 26, 2008
One of the main IDN questions asked by end-users in the last few months, and that have been discussed during the ICANN Paris meeting in the recent week is as follows:
“If I have registered <domainname>.tld, then how will you ensure that I am also the registrant of <domainname>.<idn-tld>, for all languages.”
by Stephane Van Gelder on June 15, 2008
Vendredi dernier, dans les locaux du MEDEF avenue Bosquet à Paris, était organisée une séance de familiarisation avec l’ICANN. Au programme, des explications sur la structure de l’ICANN et le fonctionnement de ses réunions internationales. Ainsi l’agenda de la réunion de Paris a-t-il été détaillé pour permettre aux nombreux représentants d’entreprises présents (une cinquantaine d’entreprises étaient représentées) de mieux identifier les ateliers ou plénières les plus intéressants pour eux. Y a été expliqué le principe, nouveau pour la réunion de Paris, de rendez-vous “business” regroupant sous la bannière “Business Access Events” ces évènements destinés plus spécifiquement aux entreprises.
by Tina Dam on June 6, 2008
As you may know by now ICANN has launched an IDN wiki, with fully localized addresses, which is managed by a GREAT wiki team (consultants to ICANN) and a GREAT group of moderators that have volunteered to assist is supporting the various languages that the wiki currently is enabled in.
Is it possible to add new languages, and since we last announced this possibility (http://blog.icann.org/?p=290#more-290 ) we received requests for a few more.
by Kieren McCarthy on March 31, 2008
by Tina Dam on March 20, 2008
The IDN wiki was launched in October 2007 to provide a test environment of IDNs that is open and available to all interested parties. The IDNwiki was initially based on the eleven example.test domains listed on the main page (http://idn.icann.org) with articles and discussion in each of the indicated languages.
Although there currently are no plans for establishing further .test top-level domains, separate facets of IDNwiki can be established in additional languages. The first two such language extensions have just been made available:
by Richard Lamb on February 29, 2008
Yesterday ICANN began DNSSEC signing the IDN .test zones. Over the next few days, we will be testing and carefully monitoring the system. It is not expected that DNSSEC or the testing will have any effect on normal DNS operations. Any user experiences or problems or feedback should be reported to <richard.lamb@icann.org>. This deployment is intended to demonstrate certain capabilities and also provide both ICANN and those interested in DNSSEC an opportunity to gain further experience with this new technology.
by Tina Dam on February 22, 2008
One topic that kept being misunderstood at the ICANN meeting in India was ‘what is the purpose of the IDN wiki’ – the example.test site that are actual IDN TLDs in the root. I’ll try to explain what is going on with the wiki and what it can and cannot be used for.
First some background and clarifying information. Having your script/language represented in the wiki is not a pre-requisite for eventually getting an IDN TLD in the root. These 11 languages/scripts are merely being used to evaluate usability of IDNs in applications. The “example.test” strings in the wiki were translated into the specified languages and then represented by the associated scripts.
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.
ICANN’s second regional meeting will open its doors in Dubai tomorrow, Tuesday 1 April.