- From: Greg Aaron <gaaron@afilias.info>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 11:38:08 -0400
- To: <member-i18n-core@w3.org>, <www-international@w3.org>, <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <004901c7a787$853a6a10$0d02a8c0@afilias.com>
FYI: A major topic of discussion at ICANN is the introduction of "IDN TLDs" -- internationalized versions of top-level domain (TLD) labels such as ".COM", ".NET", ".ORG", etc. This means that in the future, a whole domain name - both to the left and the right of the last dot - may be internationalized. (Currently only characters to the left of the dot may be internationalized.) Imagine ".COM" rendered in and functional in many different scripts: Chinese, Devanagari, Japanese, Cyrillic, Tamil, etc. etc. This topic will have impact on applications. There are also policy issues, such as management of the various "versions" of a TLD. This topic will be discussed at the upcoming ICANN meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico on June 25-29, 2007. There is currently work underway in ICANN committees and at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). As part of the effort, ICANN has posted a set of draft procedures describing how IANA will manage the insertion, administration, and removal of internationalized top-level labels in the DNS root zone. ICANN's announcement is at: http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-02jun07.htm A public comment period is open until June 22, 2007. ICANN has also published a new version of its IDN Guidelines, which for the first time makes specific reference to IDN in top-level labels. It is anticipated to be amended and supplemented in subsequent drafts in preparation for the release of internationalized top-level labels in the production environment. This document is currently open to public comment: http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-11may07.htm With best wishes, --Greg Aaron ********************************** Greg Aaron Senior Manager, e-Commerce Afilias vox: +1.215.706.5700 x104 fax: 1.215.706.5701 gaaron@afilias.info ********************************** The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer.
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