- From: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:22:06 +0000
- To: 'WWW International' <www-international@w3.org>
- CC: W3C Offices <w3c-office-pr@w3.org>, public-i18n-core@w3.org
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 -- Najib TOUNSI (mailto:tounsi @ w3.org) Bureau W3C au Maroc (http://www.w3c.org.ma/) Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingenieurs, BP 765 Agdal-RABAT Maroc (Morocco) Phone : +212 (0) 37 68 71 50 (P1711) Fax : +212 (0) 37 77 88 53 Mobile: +212 (0) 61 22 00 30
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