Abdulaziz Al-Zoman

Country:	Saudi Arabia
Website:	[NIC.sa NIC.sa]

Dr. Abdulaziz AL-Zoman is an associate professor who works for CITC as an IT Consultant, and is the director and founder of the Saudi Network Information Center. SaudiNIC is responsible of registering domain names under the Saudi ccTLD, .sa and IDN ccTLD, .السعودية (xn--mgberp4a5d4ar).

In 1986, he received his bachelor degree in computer engineering from the College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science in 1990 and 1995, respectively, from the University of New Brunswick, Canada.

عبدالعزيز حمد الزومان (In Arabic بالعربي)

Industry Participation

Dr. Al-Zoman attends and presents at industry conferences, such as those associated with the IGF. He is an expert on IDNs and has worked extensively to implement arabic based TLDs. A list of some his presentations at Industry conferences is found below. His participation in international conferences, such as those related to the WSIS, is often focused on regional issues regarding Arabic IDN implementation and the means to develop the Arab Information Society.

Abdulaziz called for the removal of seemingly unnecessary and racially problematic language in ICANN's new TLD guidebook regarding "terrorists".

Career History

He has around 25 years of technical and applied experiences in the field of information and communications technology, particularly, the Internet.

• From May 1986 to Jan 1988, he was with KACST, Computer Center Department, looking after KACSTnet and partially GULFNET.

• From May 1995 to 1998 he was with KACST working as a network and communication consultant for the Directorate of the National Communication Network, a member of the Internet work-team, and looking after the NOC/NIC of SaudiNet.

• He was the team leader in 1996-1997 for connecting GULFNET to the Internet and making KACST as an email gateway between the Internet and GULFNET.

• He had a major role in connecting Saudi Arabia to Internet. He was an active member of the team that designed, managed and built the Internet Services Unit (ISU).

• He provided consultant services to a number of organizations from different sectors, e.g., government offices, education institutes, private companies, and Internet services providers.

• He presented a number of seminars and workshops related to Internet technologies and IDN.

• He was the chairman of the Arabic Linguistic Committee of the Arabic Internet Names Consortium (AINC) and a member of the AINC board. He was the chairman of the Steering Committee of the Arabic Domain Names Pilot Project. He is considered the main supporter for Arabic Domain Names.

• His current research interests are in the fields of data link protocols, data flow control procedures, wireless communications, Internet security and access control, and Arabizing domain names.

Some Publications

• A. Al-Zoman, "Using Arabic Scripts in Internationalized Domain Names", WSEAS transactions on Information Science & Applications, Issue 3, Volume 3 March 2006, pp. 595-601.

• A. Al-Zoman, " Top-Level Arabic Domain Names", International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, Volume 17 Number 2 June 2004, pp. 83-95.

• عبدالعزيز الزومان، "استخدام اللغة العربية في كتابة أسماء مواقع الإنترنت"، مجلة المكتبات والمعلومات العربية، دار المريخ، لندن، بريطانيا، السنة الثانية والعشرون، العدد الثالث، ربيع ثاني 1423هـ، صفحة 21-38.

• H. Al-Zoman and A. Al-Zoman, "Internet Usage Among Dental Professionals in Riyadh", Pakistan Oral & Dental Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, June 2002, pp. 39-44

• A. Al-Zoman, J. DeDourek, and B. Kurz. "Modeling cellular radio channels for asynchronous data transmissions", the International Journal of Modeling and Simulation, IASTED, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp.1-5, 1997.

• A. Al-Zoman, "Arabic Domain Names." In Proc. of WSEAS International Conference On Software Engineering, Parallel And Distributed Systems (SEPADS '06), Madrid, Spain, Feb 15-17, 2006, pp. 88-96

• عبدالعزيز الزومان، "مسائل لغوية في الأسماء العربية لمواقع الإنترنت"، المؤتمر الدولي الوطني السابع عشر للحاسب الآلي، 15-18 صفر 1425هـ، جامعة الملك عبدالعزيز، المدينة المنورة،صفحة 235-250

• عبدالعزيز الزومان، "النطاقات العلوية العربية"، المؤتمر الدولي الوطني السابع عشر للحاسب الآلي، 15-18 صفر 1425هـ، جامعة الملك عبدالعزيز، المدينة المنورة،صفحة 281-296

• عبدالعزيز الزومان وآخرون، "العمل عن بعد عالميا ومحالات تطبيقه في المملكة العربية السعودية"، المؤتمر الدولي الوطني السابع عشر للحاسب الآلي، 15-18 صفر 1425هـ، جامعة الملك عبدالعزيز، المدينة المنورة،صفحة 57-76

• عبدالعزيز الزومان، رائد الفايز، و أنس عسيري، "أسماء مواقع الإنترنت متى تكون عربية"، المؤتمر الدولي العربي لتقنية المعلومات 2001، 13-15 نوفمبر 2001م، جامعة العلوم والتكنولوجيا الأردنية، إربد، الأردن، صفحة 364-372

• بدر البدر و عبدالعزيز الزومان، "عرض لطرق ضبط استخدام الإنترنت"، المؤتمر الوطني الخامس عشر، 17-19 رجب 1418هـ، جامعة الملك فهد للبترول والمعادن، الظهران، صفحة 339-368

• A. Al-Zoman, “Gulf Internet Exchange Point”, in Proceedings of the Kuwait Conference on Information Highway, KISR, Kuwait, March 1998.

• A. Al-Zoman and Y. Mansuri, “Towards a National Academic and Research Information Super Highway”, in Proceedings of the 15th National Computer Conference 17-19 Nov. 1997, KFUMP, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, pp. 219-236,.

• A. Al-Zoman, J. DeDourek, and B. Kurz. "Automatic retransmission rather than automatic repeat request." In Proc. of 1994 ICNP, IEEE Computer Society Press, Boston, MA , pp. 48-55, Oct. 25-28, 1994.

• A. Al-Zoman, J. DeDourek, and B. Kurz. "Modeling cellular radio channels for asynchronous data transmissions." In Proc. of IASTED Inter. Conf. on Modeling, Simulation and Control in the Process Industry, Ottawa, Ont. , pp. 51-54, May 25-27, 1994.

• A. Al-Zoman, J. DeDourek, and B. Kurz. "Performance of data link protocols over cellular networks." In Proc. of the 2nd Inter. Conf. on Telecomm. systems modeling and analysis, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN , March 24-27, 1994.

• A. Al-Zoman, J. DeDourek, and B. Kurz. "A study on data communications over non-conventional channels" In Proc. of APICS Computer Science Conf., Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., pp. 78-87, Oct.1992.

Some Presentaions Related to IDN

• Policies for an Arabic IDN ccTLD Registry SaudiNIC’s Experience, APTLD Meeting, Landmark , AMMAN, JORDAN , 30/10-1/11 2010

• Arabic IDNs Issues and Challenges,The Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) Software Developer’s Consortium, Amman, Jordan 29 Oct 2010

• “.السعودية Launching IDN ccTLD ”, IDN Variant & Fast Track Seesion, ICANN meeting 38, Brussel, 20-25 June 2010

• Multilingual Internet Arabic IDN,IGF Workshop, Sharm Elsheikh, Nov 15-18, 2009

• SaudiNIC’s Proposed Solution: Registry-level Multilingual Arabic Script IDN Registration, IGF Workshop, Sharm Elsheikh, Nov 15-18, 2009

• Multilingual Internet Arabic IDN, Arab Summer School on Internet Governance Cairo, June 27-30, 2009

• Writing Domain Names in Different Arabic Script Based Languages: Language VS. Script, APTLD Meeting, Kuala Lumpur May 18-24 2008

• Writing Domain Names in Different Arabic Script Based Languages: Language VS. Script, ICANN Regional Meeting, Dubai April 1-3 2008

• Arabic Domain Names Pilot Project, ICANN IDN Workshop، Vancouver, Canada, 2005

• SaudiNIC's Contributions and Experiences in Supporting Arabic Domain Names, 2'nd regional preparatory meeting for WISIS, Damascus Nov 2004

• SaudiNIC's Contributions and Experiences in Supporting Arabic Domain Names, ICANN/ITU Workshop, 19-24 July, 2004, Kuala Lumpur

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