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==Background==

==Background==

The internationalization of domain names was first introduced by [[Martin Duerst]] from the University of Zürich through an Internet Draft submitted to the IETF on December 10, 1996.<ref>[http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-duerst-dns-i18n-00 Internationalization of Domain Names]</ref> <ref>[http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/1996Dec/0038.html URLs and Internationalization]</ref> Following Duerst proposal to internationalized the domain names, the [[National University in Singapore Center for Internet Research]] organized a team led by [[Prof. Tan Tin Wee]] along with [[Lim Juay Kwang]] and [[Leong Kok Yong]] to conduct a research on IDN in 1998. During that year further research and meetings were done in conjunction with Duerst proposal which include Prof. S. Subiah's research from [[Bioinformatrix Pte. Ltd.]], Geneva INET'98 Conference, [[APNG]] General Meeting and Working Group Meetings.The iDNS Working group was formed and James Seng was recruited by Bioinformatrix Pte. Ltd. to lead the continuous development of IDN.<ref>[http://ianpeter.wordpress.com/2007/05/10/history-of-internationalised-domain-names/ History of Internationalized Domain Names]</ref>

The internationalization of domain names was first introduced by [[Martin Duerst]] from the University of Zürich through an Internet Draft submitted to the IETF on December 10, 1996.<ref>[http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-duerst-dns-i18n-00 Internationalization of Domain Names]</ref> <ref>[http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/1996Dec/0038.html URLs and Internationalization]</ref> Following Duerst proposal to internationalized the domain names, the [[National University in Singapore Center for Internet Research]] organized a team led by [[Prof. Tan Tin Wee]] along with [[Lim Juay Kwang]] and [[Leong Kok Yong]] to conduct a research on IDN in 1998. During that year further research and meetings were done in conjunction with Duerst proposal which include Prof. S. Subiah's research from [[Bioinformatrix Pte. Ltd.|BIX Pte. Ltd.]], Geneva INET'98 Conference, [[APNG]] General Meeting and Working Group Meetings.The iDNS Working group was formed and James Seng was recruited by BIX Pte. Ltd. to lead the continuous development of IDN.<ref>[http://ianpeter.wordpress.com/2007/05/10/history-of-internationalised-domain-names/ History of Internationalized Domain Names]</ref>

 

On February 1999, James Seng led launching of the iDNS test bed with the cooperation of the [[Asia Pacific Networking Group|APNG]], [[China Internet Network Information Center|CNNIC]], [[Japan Network Information Center|JPNIC]], [[Korea Network Information Center|KRNIC]], [[Taiwan Information Network Information Center|TWNIC]], [[Thailand Network Information Center|THNIC]], [[Hongkong Network Information Center|HKNIC]] and [[Singapore Network Information Center|SGNIC]]. The test bed was succeeded by the presentation of the IDN Report during the joint APNG-APTLD Meeting during the [[APRICOT]]'99 Conference. On March of 1999, the IDN report was endorsed during the APNG General meeting. On June 1999, APNG together with National University of Singapore Center for Internet Research filed a grant application [[International Development Research Center|IDRC]], an international organisation funded by the Canadian Government to work on IDN for IPv6. The following month, the IDNA patent application was filed by [[Walid R. Tout]]. James Seng, Martin Duerst and Tan Tin Wee published Internet Draft UTF5 and it was succeeded by the establishment of a Working Group by APTLD and APNG to evaluate the issues related to the IDN. The Working Group was headed by Kilnam Chon. By the end of 1999, the IETF IDN Birds of Feather was initiated by i-DNS.net International in Washington and the first commercial IDN was implemented in Taiwanese and Chinese characters under the IDN top level domain ([[TLD]]).Furthermore, Kilnam Chon initiated the formation of the IDNS Task Forced which paved the way to the establishment of the [[Multilingual Internet Names Consortium|MINC]].<ref>[http://www.domainname.com.ua/history-Internationalised-domain-names.php History of Internationalized Domain Names]</ref>

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