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

[Izumi AIZU]

Thanks Milton,

As you can imagine, the process is not an easy one - and will continue
to be so. One camp wants for competition, another values consistency.

As far as I know, no other ccTLD at this point plans to introduce
plural registry for the new IDN - all existing registry will also run
the IDN.  But, I heard that in China, a new registry is being created,
for the new gTLD, but also they might run for city TLDs such as
Beijing or Shanghai - the government rep lady said in Sydney said that
want to introduce competition.

izumi

2009/11/2 Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu>:
> This is really great, Izumi. I spoke with someone from JPRS at the Seoul meeting and she hinted that Japan would take a more open and competitive approach to the IDN fast track. This is a model policy that I wish other countries would follow. Let us know how it works out.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: izumiaizu at gmail.com [mailto:izumiaizu at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Izumi
>> AIZU
>> Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 1:44 AM
>> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; David Goldstein
>> Subject: Re: [governance] Re: IDN's Internationalized Domain Names - A New
>> Era
>>
>> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
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