IUW 2006 03 28

IUW

[edit] Podcast

Here's a link to the podcast of today's meeting.

[edit] Photos

[edit] Participants

• BrandonCsSanders
• Bret Fausett

I'll be mentioning some documents on the policy development process update. I'll link them here: Bruce Tonkin's summary of policy issues involved in IDNs and TLDs, and, PDFs of Powerpoint presentations on President's Committee and Registrar Committee presentations on IDNs. --Bret Fausett 23:23, 27 Mar 2006 (EST)

• Dirk Krischenowski
• Jacqueline A. Morris
• John Praill
• Stephen Bell
• Tateishi Toshiaki
• Click edit and then insert your name here alphabetized by first name

[edit] Notes by BrandonCsSanders

Annette Welcomes everyone and introduces the panelists

Cary Karp, President & CEO, MUSEUM Domain Management Association (MuseDOMA) ~ Useful things to know before registering an IDN (powerpoint presentation)

• Pages and content have rich multilingual content
• Namespace is very impoverished in comparison
• Each persons computer is set up for a particular locale and associated language and doesn't naturally handle other languages that are some distance from each other
• An IDN that is fantastic in your locale might not be of any use to others who can't for example type it
• Fonts are a significant problem
• Character encoding systems mapping numbers to characters ... need unicode UTF-8
• Every TLD registry publishes a list of accepted characters but none allow them all
• Domain names are not in their Unicode format ... they are in ASCII
• The ASCII Compatible Encoding (ACE) transforms unicode into a sequence of ASCII characters
• Punycode is the defacto ACE, but it is not intended to be seen by users
• Prefixed by xn--
• The shortest possible Punycode label is 7
• You aren't actually registering the unicode identifier, but rather the punycode ASCII string
• We're going to have problems
• http://josefsson.org/idn.php idn convertor (Punycode to Unicode)

Li Guanghao, International Cooperation Special-ist, CCNIC ~ CNNIC's IDN Activities

• ... missed a bunch while taking photos and having trouble connecting to the ICANN wireless network
• DNAME vs NS Record
• What ougt we do
  • More discussion
  • Who should manage new TLDs?
  • cctlds, then gtlds

• ... left to upload pictures and missed many notes (please see the podcast)

• The slides are available at the ICANN website.