[governance] Friday morning... (Arabic Domain Name) Some Background

Fri May 7 11:29:07 EDT 2010

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is really out of date.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.

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.

Milestones such as the one about IDNs being put in use, are the
celebrations of those individuals. Thank you all.

Kind regards,

Olivier

Le 07/05/2010 16:01, Ginger Paque a écrit :
> I did some searches, trying to better understand the 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.
>
> Published in May 2007, Ian introduced it like this:
>
> *"Thanks to Prof. S. Subbiah from Singapore for this excellent short
> history of the attempts to internationalise domain names.*
>
> *"There is much still to be done!"*
>
> http://ianpeter.wordpress.com/2007/05/10/history-of-internationalised-domain-names/
>
> History of IDN
>
> * 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]
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-duerst-dns-i18n-00%7Cdraft-duerst-dns-i18n-00.txt>[4]
> <http://archive.minc.org/about/history/>[5]
>
> ( 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))
> <http://www.connect-world.com/articles/old_articles/Dr-TanTinWee.htm>
> * 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.)
> - a NUS spin-off company led by Prof. S. Subbiah.
> * July 98: Geneva INET’98 conference with a BoF discussion on iDNS and
> APNG General Meeting and Working Group meeting.
> * 07/98: Asia Pacific Networking Group (APNG, now still in existence
> [6] <http://www.apng.org/> and distinct from a gathering known as APSTAR
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=APSTAR&action=edit> [7]
> <http://www.apstar.org/>) iDNS Working Group formed. [8]
> <http://www.apng.org/old/commission/idns/>
> * 10/98: James Seng <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Seng> was
> recruited to lead further IDN development at BIX Pte. Ltd. by Prof. S.
> Subbiah.
> * 02/99: iDNS Testbed launched by BIX Pte. Ltd. under the auspicies of
> APNG with participation from CNNIC
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNNIC>, JPNIC
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Network_Information_Center>,
> KRNIC, TWNIC, THNIC, HKNIC and SGNIC led by James Seng
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Seng> [9]
> <http://www.minc.org/about/history/idns/idomain/>
>
> * 02/99: Presentation of Report on IDN at Joint APNG-APTLD meeting, at
> APRICOT’99
> * 03/99: Endorsement of the IDN Report at APNG General Meeting 1 March
> 1999.
> * 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]
> <http://www.apng.org/old/commission/idns/ipv6/>
> * 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]
> <http://www.delphion.com/details?&pn=US06182148__>
>
> * 07/99: [12]
> <http://mirrors.isc.org/pub/www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-jseng-utf5-00.txt>;
> Renewed 2000 [13]
> <http://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/idn/mdnkit/download/documents/mdnkit-2.4-doc/reference/draft/draft-jseng-utf5-01.txt>
> Internet Draft on UTF5 by James Seng, Martin Duerst and Tan Tin Wee.
>
> * 08/99: APTLD and APNG forms a working group
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_group> to look into IDN
> issues chaired by Kilnam Chon. [14]
> <http://www.minc.org/about/history/idns/iname/>
> * 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.
> * 11/99: IETF <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF> IDN Birds-of-Feather
> in Washington was initiated by i-DNS.net at the request of IETF officials.
> * 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.
> * Late 1999: Kilnam Chon initiates Task Force on IDNS which led to
> formation of MINC, the Multilingual Internet Names Consortium. [15]
> <http://www.minc.org/oldminc/old/meetings/>
> * 01/2000: IETF <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF> IDN Working Group
> formed chaired by James Seng
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Seng> and Marc Blanchet
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc_Blanchet&action=edit>
> * 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.
> * 02/2000: Multilingual Internet Names Consortium(MINC) Proposal BoF
> at IETF Adelaide. [16]
> <http://www.minc.org/oldminc/old//meetings/minc_20000327.html>
> * 03/2000: APRICOT 2000 Multilingual DNS session [17]
> <http://www.apricot.net/apricot2000/index2.html>
> * 04/2000: WALID Inc. (with IDNA patent pending application 6182148)
> started Registration & Resolving Multilingual Domain Names.
> * 05/2000: Interoperability Testing WG, MINC meeting. San Francisco,
> chaired by Bill Manning and Y.Yoneya 12 May 2000. [18]
> <http://www.minc.org/oldminc/old/meetings/sanfrancisco_20000512/testing_SFO.htm>
> * 06/2000: Inaugural Launch of the Multilingual Internet Names
> Consortium (MINC) in Seoul [19] <http://www.minc.org/> to drive the
> collaborative roll-out of IDN starting from the Asia Pacific.
> [20] <http://www.minc.org/about/history/>
> * 07/2000: Joint Engineering TaskForce (JET) initiated in Yokohama to
> study technical issues led by JPNIC (K.Konishi)
> * 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]
> <http://www.cdnc.org/english/introduction/index.html> [22]
> <http://www.cdnc.org/english/news/index.html>
>
> * 03/01: ICANN <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN> Board IDN Working
> Group formed
> * 07/01: Japanese Domain Name Association : JDNA Lauch Ceremony (July
> 13, 2001) in Tokyo, Japan.
> * 07/01: Urdu Internet Names System (July 28, 2001) in Islamabad,
> Pakistan, Organised Jointly by SDNP and MINC. [23]
> <http://urduworkshop.sdnpk.org/>
> * 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]
> <http://www.nap.edu/books/0309096405/html/390.html>
> * 08/01: MINC presentation and outreach at the Asia Pacific Advanced
> Network annual conference, Penang, Malaysia 20th August 2001
> * 10/01: Joint MINC-CDNC Meeting in Beijing 18-20 October 2001
> * 11/01: ICANN <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN> IDN Committee formed
> * 12/01: Joint ITU-WIPO Symposium on Multilingual Domain Names
> organised in association with MINC, 6-7 Dec 2001, International
> Conference Center, Geneva.
> * 01/03: Free implementation of StringPrep, Punycode, and IDNA release
> in GNU Libidn.
>
> * 03/03: Publication of RFC 3454
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3454>, RFC 3490
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3490>, RFC 3491
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3491> and RFC 3492
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3492>
>
> * 06/03: Publication of ICANN IDN Guidelines for registries
> <http://www.icann.org/general/idn-guidelines-20jun03.htm>
> * 05/04: Publication of RFC 3743 <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3743>,
> Joint Engineering Team (JET) Guidelines for Internationalized Domain
> Names (IDN) Registration and Administration for Chinese, Japanese, and
> Korean
> * March 2005: First Study Group 17 of ITU-T meeting on
> Internationalized Domain Names [25]
> <http://www.itu.int/md/T05-SG17-050330/sum/en>
> * April 2006: Study Group 17 meeting in Korea gave final approval to
> the Question on Internationalized Domain Names [26]
> <http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/newslog/Multilingual+Internet+Work+Progresses.aspx>
> * December 2006: ICANN meeting at São Paulo discusses status of lab
> tests of IDNs within the root.
>
>
>
> On 5/7/2010 9:12 AM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
>> This is indeed a great milestone!
>>
>> Congrats to our Egyptian friends!
>>
>> --c.a.
>>
>> On 05/07/2010 07:21 AM, Ginger Paque wrote:
>>> Congratulations to the IG workers of the world!!
>>>
>>> Copy and paste this link in your address bar ... then press enter ...
>>>
>>> وزارة-الاتصالات.مصر
>>>
>>> it is the website of MCIT Egypt with an Arabic domain name!!!
>>>
>>> Congrats MCIT, Congrats Egypt, Congrats ICANN, Congrats world!!!
>>>
>>> Best, Ginger
>>

-- 
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html

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