- From: Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:54:41 +0200
- To: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma>
- Cc: 'WWW International' <www-international@w3.org>, W3C Offices <w3c-office-pr@w3.org>, public-i18n-core@w3.org
Najib, and other with IDN experience, I encourage you to send back your comments on IDN real issues to ICANN and the IDN groups there. Najib Tounsi wrote: > > FYI. Good News > > Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) is speeding > up their work to introduce Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). Icann > has published a call for test on this issue. see > http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-15oct07.htm > > The tests are targeted toward 'full' IDNs, i.e. with TLDs in non-Latin > scripts such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrilic, Greek and others. Among other > things, the tests aim essentially to > (1) "know how the URL displays in browsers" and > (2) "How this impacts the root zone" > > I would like to add two comments: > About the point (1), the W3C I18N WG have already carried out a series > of tests on how IDNs are displayed in browsers. Results are discussed in: > http://www.w3.org/International/tests/results/results-idn-IDNs > and > http://www.w3.org/International/tests/results/results-rtl-idn-display > (for IDNs with RTL scripts) > > About (2), technically there should be no problem, since IDNs are > converted to punicode, an ASCII equivalent string, before being sent to > DNS. Moreover, ICANN have already done a similar test in > http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-4-07mar07.htm > to be sure "for prudence" if in presence of TLDs expressed in punicode, > "DNS system as a whole do not behave differently from its normal > behaviour." > > Yet another breaking of open doors? > > Any other comment? > > Best, > > Najib >
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