[governance] Re: IDN's Internationalized Domain Names - A New Era

[Izumi AIZU]

We are working to introduce a competitive bidding for the registry of
new IDN ccTLD, dot-Nippoin. The uncumbent is allowed to bid for, but
whole idea is to create choice and
competition among, even ccTLDs. It's not an easy task, to make it
open, fair, balanced.
Hence we started Japan Internet Domain Name Council, with bit of
multi-stakeholder
framework, mainly composed of Internet industry associations (four of
them together),
with Consumer body, and the Government sits as "observer".

izumi


2009/11/1, David Goldstein <goldstein_david at yahoo.com.au>:
> Of course, those on this list wouldn't want to get the media hyping this
> event in the way of what was actually claimed.
>
> From the ICANN news release:
> "The coming introduction of non-Latin characters represents the biggest
> technical change to the Internet since it was created four decades
> ago," said ICANN chairman Peter Dengate Thrush.
>
> Giving people whose language is not Latin-based the ability to use domain
> names is very significant. Eventually it will probably benefit every
> language that includes a character in addition to A to Z, 0 to 9 and a dash.
>
> I guess many of those whose languages are Latin-based can't think outside
> the square and appreciate this.
>
> Whether you like ICANN or not, there was a lot of work done to ensure IDNs
> were safe and secure to use. But then, many on this list are loathe to admit
> such a thing.
>
> Well, I guess bitterness prevails...
>
> David
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Stephane Bortzmeyer
> <bortzmeyer at internatif.org>
> Sent: Sun, 1 November, 2009 10:57:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [governance] Re: IDN's Internationalized Domain Names - A New
> Era
>
> Fouad wrote
>
>>> a move that is being described as the biggest change to the way the
>>> internet works since it was created 40 years ago.
>
> Very few people who have examined this subject think the Internet was
> created 40 years ago. See
> http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/origins.html
> for an article I wrote when the same group celebrated the "35th
> anniversary".
>
> I think Stephane's comments are relevant. ICANN's tick on IDNs is welcome
> and overdue, but not ground breaking.
>
> The real credit here does not lie with ICANN, but with people like Dr. John
> Klensin, Dr. Konishi (Japan), Prof. Qian (China), Dr. Kenny Huang (Taiwan),
> and Dr. Ko (Korea), James Seng (Singapore), TanTin Wee, many others. And as
> Stephane states, the breakthrough was five years ago, not now.
>
> But spin doctors create popular history and myths propagate.
>
>
>
> On 1/11/09 12:11 AM, "Stephane Bortzmeyer" <bortzmeyer at internatif.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 08:22:33PM +0900,
>>  Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote
>>  a message of 109 lines which said:
>>
>>> The internet regulator ICANN has approved plans to allow
>>> non-Latin-script web addresses,
>>
>> Unicode characters in domain names have been technically approved in
>> 2003 (with the publication of RFC 3490) and installed first in a TLD a
>> few months later (though I do not remember which TLD was the first
>> one). ICANN, as often, is very late here. We see "non-Latin-script web
>> addresses" for many years.
>>
>>> a move that is being described as the biggest change to the way the
>>> internet works since it was created 40 years ago.
>>
>> This is simply ridiculous. More than the creation of the DNS? Or of
>> BGP? Or than the deployment of TCP/IPv4, both non-existent 40 years
>> ago?
>>
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                        >> Izumi Aizu <<

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           Institute for HyperNetwork Society, Oita,
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