APAN Busan
APAN Busan
APAN Busan
Names (IDN)
APAN Busan
James Seng
jseng@pobox.org.sg
former co-chair, IDN Working Group
Internationalized Domain Names
华人 . 公司 .cn 華人 . 商業 .tw
高島屋 . 会社 .jp
삼성 . 회사 .kr 三星 . 회사 .kr
م.الهرام
viagénie.qc.ca
קום.ישראל
ทีเอชนิค.พาณิชย์.ไทย
End
IDNA System
processing
Punycode
Resolver
Punycode unless
protocol is updated
Punycode
DNS Application
Servers Servers
IDNA-Nameprep-Punycode
User Input: 新加坡
(48 34 28 51 38 34)GBK
IDNA
processing
xn--3bs3aw5wpa2a
(E6 96 B0 E5 8A A0
Resolver E5 9D A1)UTF-8
xn--3bs3aw5wpa2a
DNS Application
Servers Servers
So…
200 engineers
30 months
6,000 engineering man-months
more then 10 high-tech companies
over 1M names registered
>100M USD investment
What next?
The Eco-system
Policy
delegation
RRP/EPP
registration
resolution
Other
Protocols
What we have so far
Policy
delegation
RRP/EPP
registration
IDNA resolution
Other
Protocols
CJK Administration Guideline
draft-jseng-idn-admin-01.txt
Policy
JET effort (started in Feb 2002).
delegation
The goal is to reduce potential
dispute conflict by reservation of
variants
RRP/EPP
registration
Provide an algorithm for the
variants but allow zoneresolution
admin to
define further rules
Based on IDNA
Other
Protocols
Internationalized Resource Identifier
draft-duerst-iri-00.txt
Policy
Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI)
Other
Protocols
Policy
Policy
Understand the technical limitation
Script vs. Language
Name vs. Identifier
Internationalization vs. Localization
Per label basis
Advisory
Council
Project
Convener
Legal Project
Counsel Manager
Programmers
OR