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On February 1999, James Seng led launching of the iDNS test bed with the cooperation of the [[APNG|Asia Pacific Networking Group]], [[CNNIC|China Internet Network Information Center]], [[JPNIC|Japan Network Information Center]], [[KRNIC|Korea Network Information Center]], [[TWNIC|Taiwan Information Network Information Center]], [[THNIC|Thailand Network Information Center]], [[HKNIC|Hongkong Network Information Center]] and [[SGNIC|Singapore Network Information Center]]. 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 [[IDRC|International Development Research Center]], 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 [[MINC|Multilingual Internet Names Consortium]].<ref>[http://www.domainname.com.ua/history-Internationalised-domain-names.php History of Internationalized Domain Names]</ref>

On February 1999, James Seng led launching of the iDNS test bed with the cooperation of the [[APNG|Asia Pacific Networking Group]], [[CNNIC|China Internet Network Information Center]], [[JPNIC|Japan Network Information Center]], [[KRNIC|Korea Network Information Center]], [[TWNIC|Taiwan Information Network Information Center]], [[THNIC|Thailand Network Information Center]], [[HKNIC|Hongkong Network Information Center]] and [[SGNIC|Singapore Network Information Center]]. 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 [[IDRC|International Development Research Center]], 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 [[MINC|Multilingual Internet Names Consortium]].<ref>[http://www.domainname.com.ua/history-Internationalised-domain-names.php History of Internationalized Domain Names]</ref>

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