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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>Thanks Ginger, </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>Yes, I would like to include my contribution to the recently announced activation of IDN.IDN ccTLD in the registry Root System of IANA. </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>It is I, who proposed and convinced ICANN to remove the limitations of two letters’ abbreviation for proposed name script/string for a IDN ccTLD, that enabled all countries and territories of the world (who use <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>non-Latin base script of their official language) to apply for a meaningful abbreviation or full name of the country as IDN ccTLD. Otherwise, it could be only </FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi" dir=rtl lang=AR-SA>وزارة-الاتصالات.مص</SPAN><SPAN dir=ltr></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><SPAN dir=ltr></SPAN><FONT face=Calibri> with assigning two characters to Egypt for their Arabic
IDN ccTLD as ”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN dir=rtl></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi" dir=rtl lang=AR-SA><SPAN dir=rtl></SPAN>.مص</SPAN><SPAN dir=ltr></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><SPAN dir=ltr></SPAN><FONT face=Calibri>” instead of ”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN dir=rtl></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi" dir=rtl lang=AR-SA><SPAN dir=rtl></SPAN>.مصر</SPAN><SPAN dir=ltr></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><SPAN dir=ltr></SPAN><FONT face=Calibri>”.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>Great thanks to Allah, who given me the chance and power to convince ICANN’s Workgroups to alter their policies & procedures that has become integral part of the recently implemented policies and IDN.IDN cc/gTLDs. </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>My contributions includes efforts to convince ICANN’s Workgroup for the followings:<BR>1.<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>To REMOVE the restriction and limitation of two Characters for new IDN ccTLD's naming script. {So, finally IDN ccTLD Fast Track offers minimum 2 characters (U-Label) and up to 63 characters (A-Labels)}.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>2.<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>New proposed IDN ccTLD's naming script should be a meaningful word in their local Language. ({Meaningfulness has also become necessary for string evaluation criteria}</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>3.<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>For reduction of the cost of the new ccTLDs {which is now US$26,000 or even applicant can apply for waiver of this fee}.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>4.<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Start a Urdu Wiki with IDN naming script, it was opened in second round and on second level to Persian Wiki.<BR>5.<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Also another proposal is also accepted regarding gTLDs application fee to be charged in different rounds of evaluation to enablement (4 Rounds). The looser of one round will not be going to pay the cost of the next round.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>Conclusion:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>I have got global level achievement because 250+ Countries & Territories are the BENEFICIARY trough the acceptance of my above listed proposals for the preparation of new Layers of the Language base Internet.</FONT></P><FONT face=Calibri>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3>Thanks Ginger, </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3>Yes, I would like to include my contribution to the recently announced activation of IDN.IDN ccTLD in the registry Root System of IANA. </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3>It is I, who proposed and convinced ICANN to remove the limitations of two letters’ abbreviation for proposed name script/string for a IDN ccTLD, that enabled all countries and territories of the world (who use <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>non-Latin base script of their official language) to apply for a meaningful abbreviation or full name of the country as IDN ccTLD. Otherwise, it could be only <SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi" dir=rtl lang=AR-SA>وزارة-الاتصالات.مص</SPAN><SPAN dir=ltr></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><SPAN dir=ltr></SPAN> with assigning two characters to Egypt for their Arabic IDN ccTLD as ”</SPAN><SPAN
dir=rtl></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi" dir=rtl lang=AR-SA><SPAN dir=rtl></SPAN>.مص</SPAN><SPAN dir=ltr></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><SPAN dir=ltr></SPAN>” instead of ”</SPAN><SPAN dir=rtl></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi" dir=rtl lang=AR-SA><SPAN dir=rtl></SPAN>.مصر</SPAN><SPAN dir=ltr></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><SPAN dir=ltr></SPAN>”.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3>Great thanks to Allah, who given me the chance and power to convince ICANN’s Workgroups to alter their policies & procedures that has become integral part of the recently implemented policies and IDN.IDN cc/gTLDs. </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3>My contributions includes efforts to convince ICANN’s Workgroup for the followings:<BR>1.<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>To REMOVE the restriction and limitation of two Characters for new IDN ccTLD's naming script. {So, finally IDN ccTLD Fast Track offers minimum 2 characters (U-Label) and up to 63 characters (A-Labels)}.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3>2.<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>New proposed IDN ccTLD's naming script should be a meaningful word in their local Language. ({Meaningfulness has also become necessary for string evaluation criteria}</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3>3.<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>For reduction of the cost of the new ccTLDs {which is now US$26,000 or even applicant can apply for waiver of this fee}.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3>4.<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Start a Urdu Wiki with IDN naming script, it was opened in second round and on second level to Persian Wiki.<BR>5.<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Also another proposal is also accepted regarding gTLDs application fee to be charged in different rounds of evaluation to enablement (4 Rounds). The looser of one round will not be going to pay the cost of the next round.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3>Conclusion:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>I have got global level achievement because 250+ Countries & Territories are the BENEFICIARY trough the acceptance of my above listed proposals for the preparation of new Layers of the Language base Internet.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri"><FONT size=3>PROS:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Egypt, UAE and Saudi Arabia did not have shorter meaningful abbreviations in their Native Languages (Arabic), so, they got benefit to obtain meaningful abbreviations for IDN ccTLD. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri">CONS: However, in my own country, in Pakistan, Public may lose the sharp and smart choice of appropriate IDN ccTLD i.e. "</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi" dir=rtl lang=AR-SA>پاک</SPAN><SPAN dir=ltr></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri"><SPAN dir=ltr></SPAN>." (PAK). Instead of getting benefit of the removal of two characters limitation, we will be in huge loss by applying for a longer and full name script "</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-bidi" dir=rtl lang=AR-SA>پاکستان</SPAN><SPAN dir=ltr></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri"><SPAN dir=ltr></SPAN>." (PAKISTAN) in Urdu Language. Every user of this new mechanism will have to type 4 extra letters to browse or to send email. </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal>Imran Ahmed Shah</P>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Ginger Paque <gpaque@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> governance@lists.cpsr.org<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Fri, 7 May, 2010 20:45:40<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [governance] Friday morning... (Arabic Domain Name) Some Background<BR></FONT><BR><FONT face=Verdana>Indeed, it is 2007 Olivier :) If anyone has an updated timeline, please post it! Thanks. gp</FONT><BR><BR>On 5/7/2010 10:59 AM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Thanks for the pointer, Ginger. A milestone indeed, but the paper below is really out of date. It does not mention the extraordinary amount of work that was done by volunteers in the IDNABIS IETF working group and the work also done within ICANN.<BR><BR>Having witnessed so many of the workings of these milestone events (including the coming on line of several countries), I sometimes wish there was a "lost Internet heroes" hall of fame, to mention the hundreds of volunteers who took their time to work on these matters, free of charge, sometimes incurring expenses, instead of spending their time on more ludic matters. I guess history in general is made up of these individual experiences.<BR><BR>Milestones such as the one about IDNs being put in use, are the celebrations of those individuals. Thank you all.<BR><BR>Kind regards,<BR><BR>Olivier<BR><BR>Le 07/05/2010 16:01, Ginger Paque a écrit :
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><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>
<P><B>"Thanks to Prof. S. Subbiah from Singapore for this excellent short history of the attempts to internationalise domain names.</B></P>
<P><B>"There is much still to be done!"</B></P><A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="http://ianpeter.wordpress.com/2007/05/10/history-of-internationalised-domain-names/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://ianpeter.wordpress.com/2007/05/10/history-of-internationalised-domain-names/</A><BR><BR>
<P>History of IDN</P>
<P>* 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" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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/" rel=nofollow target=_blank><http://archive.minc.org/about/history/></A>[5]</P>
<P>( 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" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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/" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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/" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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/" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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" rel=nofollow target=_blank><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNNIC></A>, JPNIC <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Network_Information_Center" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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/" rel=nofollow target=_blank><http://www.minc.org/about/history/idns/idomain/></A></P>
<P>* 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/" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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__" rel=nofollow target=_blank><http://www.delphion.com/details?&pn=US06182148__></A></P>
<P>* 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" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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.</P>
<P>* 08/99: APTLD and APNG forms a working group <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_group" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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/" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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" rel=nofollow
target=_blank><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/" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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" rel=nofollow
target=_blank><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" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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" rel=nofollow
target=_blank><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" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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/" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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/" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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" rel=nofollow
target=_blank><http://www.cdnc.org/english/news/index.html></A></P>
<P>* 03/01: ICANN <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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/" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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" rel=nofollow
target=_blank><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" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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.</P>
<P>* 03/03: Publication of RFC 3454<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3454" rel=nofollow target=_blank><http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3454></A>, RFC 3490<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3490" rel=nofollow target=_blank><http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3490></A>, RFC 3491<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3491" rel=nofollow target=_blank><http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3491></A> and RFC 3492<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3492" rel=nofollow target=_blank><http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3492></A></P>
<P>* 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" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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.</P><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></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><PRE class=moz-signature>--
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