<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>I hope that people are taking note of this. It is extremely exciting and truly remarkable. I believe Prof. Subbiah does not go far enough. While many are not Christian or Jewish, there are accounts of a period around say pre-0 to about 100 AD when many claim a miracle of a language spoken that all could understand. Matter not the truth of those accounts -- the key is that they were so notable. Everyone can just imagine a world where language is not a barrier to understanding. The work in IDNs is a man made miracle and a small step for man yet a giant leap for mankind. Just imagine!!* Think about it, this is a huge milestone in coming to fruition that dream of the 1948 UN GA of true Universal Human Dignity which today should be read here: <A href="http://www.un.org/ar/documents/udhr/">http://www.un.org/ar/documents/udhr/</A></DIV>
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<DIV>*"Imagine" Just add this stanza: Imagine there is no language, If all spoke just the same, It is not hard to do, no need to shout or scream, we all know what you mean</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 5/7/10, Ginger Paque <I><gpaque@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Ginger Paque <gpaque@gmail.com><BR>Subject: Re: [governance] Friday morning... (Arabic Domain Name) Some Background<BR>To: governance@lists.cpsr.org<BR>Date: Friday, May 7, 2010, 2:01 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV id=yiv2125891811><FONT face=Verdana>I did some searches, trying to better understand the </FONT>background to today's milestone. I found a timeline by Prof. S. Subbiah (IGC member) on Ian Peter's (another IGC member and former co-coordinator) weblog.<BR><BR>Published in May 2007, Ian introduced it like this:<BR>
<DIV><B>"Thanks to Prof. S. Subbiah from Singapore for this excellent short history of the attempts to internationalise domain names.</B></DIV>
<DIV><B>"There is much still to be done!"</B></DIV><A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="http://ianpeter.wordpress.com/2007/05/10/history-of-internationalised-domain-names/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://ianpeter.wordpress.com/2007/05/10/history-of-internationalised-domain-names/</A><BR><BR>
<DIV>History of IDN</DIV>
<DIV>* 12/96: Martin Duerst’s original Internet Draft proposing UTF5 (the first incarnation of what is known today as ACE)- UTF-5 was first defined by Martin Duerst at the University of Zürich in [3] <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-duerst-dns-i18n-00%7Cdraft-duerst-dns-i18n-00.txt" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-duerst-dns-i18n-00%7Cdraft-duerst-dns-i18n-00.txt></A>[4]<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://archive.minc.org/about/history/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://archive.minc.org/about/history/></A>[5]</DIV>
<DIV>( Subbiah comments: a precursor idea that was never implemented and would not have worked as proposed. Martin later collaborated with the Singapore team which was not aware of his previous suggestion til much later))<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://www.connect-world.com/articles/old_articles/Dr-TanTinWee.htm" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://www.connect-world.com/articles/old_articles/Dr-TanTinWee.htm></A><BR>* 03/98: Early Research on IDN at National University of Singapore (NUS), Center for Internet Research (formerly Internet Research and Development Unit – IRDU) led by Prof. Tan Tin Wee (IDN Project team – Lim Juay Kwang and Leong Kok Yong) and subsequently continued under a team at Bioinformatrix Pte. Ltd. (BIX Pte. Ltd.)<BR>- a NUS spin-off company led by Prof. S. Subbiah.<BR>* July 98: Geneva INET’98 conference with a BoF discussion on iDNS and APNG General Meeting and Working Group meeting.<BR>* 07/98: Asia
Pacific Networking Group (APNG, now still in existence [6] <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://www.apng.org/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://www.apng.org/></A> and distinct from a gathering known as APSTAR<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=APSTAR&action=edit" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=APSTAR&action=edit></A> [7]<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://www.apstar.org/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://www.apstar.org/></A>) iDNS Working Group formed. [8]<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://www.apng.org/old/commission/idns/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://www.apng.org/old/commission/idns/></A><BR>* 10/98: James Seng <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Seng" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Seng></A> was recruited to lead further
IDN development at BIX Pte. Ltd. by Prof. S. Subbiah.<BR>* 02/99: iDNS Testbed launched by BIX Pte. Ltd. under the auspicies of APNG with participation from CNNIC<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNNIC" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNNIC></A>, JPNIC <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Network_Information_Center" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Network_Information_Center></A>,<BR>KRNIC, TWNIC, THNIC, HKNIC and SGNIC led by James Seng <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Seng" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Seng></A> [9]<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://www.minc.org/about/history/idns/idomain/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://www.minc.org/about/history/idns/idomain/></A></DIV>
<DIV>* 02/99: Presentation of Report on IDN at Joint APNG-APTLD meeting, at APRICOT’99<BR>* 03/99: Endorsement of the IDN Report at APNG General Meeting 1 March 1999.<BR>* 06/99: Grant application by APNG jointly with the Centre for Internet Research (CIR), National University of Singapore, to the International Development Research Center (IDRC), a Canadian Government funded international organisation to work on IDN for IPv6. This APNG Project was funded under the Pan Asia R&D Grant administered on behalf of IDRC by the Canadian Committee on Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS). Principal Investigator: Tan Tin Wee of National University of Singapore. [10] <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://www.apng.org/old/commission/idns/ipv6/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://www.apng.org/old/commission/idns/ipv6/></A><BR>* 07/99 Tout, Walid R. (WALID Inc.) Filed IDNA patent application number US1999000358043 Method and system for
internationalizing domain names. Published 2001-01-30 [11] <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://www.delphion.com/details?&pn=US06182148__" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://www.delphion.com/details?&pn=US06182148__></A></DIV>
<DIV>* 07/99: [12] <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://mirrors.isc.org/pub/www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-jseng-utf5-00.txt" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://mirrors.isc.org/pub/www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-jseng-utf5-00.txt></A>; Renewed 2000 [13]<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/idn/mdnkit/download/documents/mdnkit-2.4-doc/reference/draft/draft-jseng-utf5-01.txt" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/idn/mdnkit/download/documents/mdnkit-2.4-doc/reference/draft/draft-jseng-utf5-01.txt></A><BR>Internet Draft on UTF5 by James Seng, Martin Duerst and Tan Tin Wee.</DIV>
<DIV>* 08/99: APTLD and APNG forms a working group <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_group" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_group></A> to look into IDN<BR>issues chaired by Kilnam Chon. [14] <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://www.minc.org/about/history/idns/iname/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://www.minc.org/about/history/idns/iname/></A><BR>* 10/99: BIX Pte. Ltd. and National University of Singapore together with New York Venture Capital investors, General Atlantic Partners, spun-off the IDN effort into 2 new Singapore companies – i-DNS.net International Inc. and i-Email.net Pte. Ltd. that created the first commercial implementation of an IDN Solution for both domain names and IDN email addresses respectively.<BR>* 11/99: IETF <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF" target=_blank
rel=nofollow><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF></A> IDN Birds-of-Feather in Washington was initiated by i-DNS.net at the request of IETF officials.<BR>* 12/99: i-DNS.net InternationalPte. Ltd. launched the first commercial IDN. It was in Taiwan and in Chinese characters under the top-level IDN TLD “.gongsi” (meaning loosely “.com”) with endorsement by the Minister of Communications of Taiwan and some major Taiwanese ISPs with reports of over 200 000 names sold in a week in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Australia and USA.<BR>* Late 1999: Kilnam Chon initiates Task Force on IDNS which led to formation of MINC, the Multilingual Internet Names Consortium. [15] <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://www.minc.org/oldminc/old/meetings/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://www.minc.org/oldminc/old/meetings/></A><BR>* 01/2000: IETF <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF" target=_blank
rel=nofollow><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF></A> IDN Working Group formed chaired by James Seng<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Seng" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Seng></A> and Marc Blanchet <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc_Blanchet&action=edit" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc_Blanchet&action=edit></A><BR>* 01/2000: The second ever commercial IDN launch was IDN TLDs in the Tamil Language, corresponding to .com, .net, .org, and .edu. These were launched in India with IT Ministry support by i-DNS.net International.<BR>* 02/2000: Multilingual Internet Names Consortium(MINC) Proposal BoF at IETF Adelaide. [16]<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://www.minc.org/oldminc/old//meetings/minc_20000327.html" target=_blank
rel=nofollow><http://www.minc.org/oldminc/old//meetings/minc_20000327.html></A><BR>* 03/2000: APRICOT 2000 Multilingual DNS session [17] <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://www.apricot.net/apricot2000/index2.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://www.apricot.net/apricot2000/index2.html></A><BR>* 04/2000: WALID Inc. (with IDNA patent pending application 6182148) started Registration & Resolving Multilingual Domain Names.<BR>* 05/2000: Interoperability Testing WG, MINC meeting. San Francisco, chaired by Bill Manning and Y.Yoneya 12 May 2000. [18] <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://www.minc.org/oldminc/old/meetings/sanfrancisco_20000512/testing_SFO.htm" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://www.minc.org/oldminc/old/meetings/sanfrancisco_20000512/testing_SFO.htm></A><BR>* 06/2000: Inaugural Launch of the Multilingual Internet Names Consortium (MINC) in Seoul [19] <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E
href="http://www.minc.org/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://www.minc.org/></A> to drive the collaborative roll-out of IDN starting from the Asia Pacific.<BR>[20] <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://www.minc.org/about/history/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://www.minc.org/about/history/></A><BR>* 07/2000: Joint Engineering TaskForce (JET) initiated in Yokohama to study technical issues led by JPNIC (K.Konishi)<BR>* 07/2000: Official Formation of CDNC Chinese Domain Name Consortium to resolve issues related to and to deploy Han Character domain names, founded by CNNIC, TWNIC, HKNIC and MONIC in May 2000. [21] <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://www.cdnc.org/english/introduction/index.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://www.cdnc.org/english/introduction/index.html></A> [22] <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://www.cdnc.org/english/news/index.html" target=_blank
rel=nofollow><http://www.cdnc.org/english/news/index.html></A></DIV>
<DIV>* 03/01: ICANN <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN></A> Board IDN Working Group formed<BR>* 07/01: Japanese Domain Name Association : JDNA Lauch Ceremony (July 13, 2001) in Tokyo, Japan.<BR>* 07/01: Urdu Internet Names System (July 28, 2001) in Islamabad, Pakistan, Organised Jointly by SDNP and MINC. [23] <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://urduworkshop.sdnpk.org/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://urduworkshop.sdnpk.org/></A><BR>* 07/01: Presentation on IDN to the Committee Meeting of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Academies USA (JULY 11-13, 2001)at University of California School of Information Management and Systems, Berkeley, CA. [24] <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://www.nap.edu/books/0309096405/html/390.html" target=_blank
rel=nofollow><http://www.nap.edu/books/0309096405/html/390.html></A><BR>* 08/01: MINC presentation and outreach at the Asia Pacific Advanced Network annual conference, Penang, Malaysia 20th August 2001<BR>* 10/01: Joint MINC-CDNC Meeting in Beijing 18-20 October 2001<BR>* 11/01: ICANN <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN></A> IDN Committee formed<BR>* 12/01: Joint ITU-WIPO Symposium on Multilingual Domain Names organised in association with MINC, 6-7 Dec 2001, International Conference Center, Geneva.<BR>* 01/03: Free implementation of StringPrep, Punycode, and IDNA release in GNU Libidn.</DIV>
<DIV>* 03/03: Publication of RFC 3454<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3454" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3454></A>, RFC 3490<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3490" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3490></A>, RFC 3491<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3491" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3491></A> and RFC 3492<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3492" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3492></A></DIV>
<DIV>* 06/03: Publication of ICANN IDN Guidelines for registries <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://www.icann.org/general/idn-guidelines-20jun03.htm" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://www.icann.org/general/idn-guidelines-20jun03.htm></A><BR>* 05/04: Publication of RFC 3743 <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3743" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3743></A>, Joint Engineering Team (JET) Guidelines for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) Registration and Administration for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean<BR>* March 2005: First Study Group 17 of ITU-T meeting on Internationalized Domain Names [25] <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://www.itu.int/md/T05-SG17-050330/sum/en" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://www.itu.int/md/T05-SG17-050330/sum/en></A><BR>* April 2006: Study Group 17 meeting in Korea gave final approval to the Question on Internationalized Domain Names
[26] <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/newslog/Multilingual+Internet+Work+Progresses.aspx" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/newslog/Multilingual+Internet+Work+Progresses.aspx></A><BR>* December 2006: ICANN meeting at São Paulo discusses status of lab tests of IDNs within the root.</DIV><BR><BR>On 5/7/2010 9:12 AM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">This is indeed a great milestone! <BR><BR>Congrats to our Egyptian friends! <BR><BR>--c.a. <BR><BR>On 05/07/2010 07:21 AM, Ginger Paque wrote: <BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Congratulations to the IG workers of the world!! <BR><BR>Copy and paste this link in your address bar ... then press enter ... <BR><BR>وزارة-الاتصالات.مصر <BR><BR>it is the website of MCIT Egypt with an Arabic domain name!!! <BR><BR>Congrats MCIT, Congrats Egypt, Congrats ICANN, Congrats world!!! <BR><BR>Best, Ginger <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<BR><BR>
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