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==IDN Working Group Report==

==IDN Working Group Report==

The Working Group distributed several surveys within the ICANN community to determine the technical and policy issues associated with the implementation of IDN services. It also consulted different groups working on IDN such as the [[Arabic Internet Names Consortium]], MINC and JPNIC.Masanobu Katoh reported the results of the survey during the Stockholm ICANN Meeting in 2001. Based on the final report of the working group, the ICANN community expressed their strong support for the implementation of the IDN, however there are technical issues that needs to be addressed first that would possibly harm the stability of the internet. The working grou found that there are two main technological approach that could be possibly adopted such as the UTF-8, which requires reconfiguration of the entire internet servers and the client side approach which requires the installation of a software that allows translation of local encoding from the user's computer into [[ASCII]] Compatible Encoding. Since the identified approaches are not yet identified as best approach, the IETF IDN Working Group is having difficulties in adopting a standard for IDN implementation.The ICANN IDN Working Group opined that the IETF is leaning towards adopting the client side approach. The Working Group also reported that a possible increase in [[cybersquatting]] may occur upon the implementation of IDN and the ICANN community suggested several solutions such as the used of UNDRP arbitrators familiar with non-Latin scripts. The Working Group also found that there were already 1 million registered IDNs waiting for IETF ti implement an IDN standard.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/committees/idn/final-report-28aug01.htm#ExecutiveSummary IDN Working Group Report]</ref>

The Working Group distributed several surveys within the ICANN community to determine the technical and policy issues associated with the implementation of IDN services. It also consulted different groups working on IDN such as the [[Arabic Internet Names Consortium]], MINC and JPNIC. Masanobu Katoh reported the results of the survey during the [[ICANN 9|Stockholm ICANN Meeting]] in 2001. Based on the final report of the Working Group, the ICANN community expressed their strong support for the implementation of the IDN, however there were technical issues that needed to be addressed first that would possibly harm the stability of the Internet. The Working Group found that there were two main technological approaches that could be possibly adopted: the UTF-8, which requires reconfiguration of all internet servers, and the client-side approach, which requires the installation of a software that allows translation of local encoding from the user's computer into [[ASCII]] Compatible Encoding. Since the neither of the identified approaches are identified as the best approach, the IETF IDN Working Group is having difficulties in adopting a standard for IDN implementation. The ICANN IDN Working Group opined that the IETF is leaning towards adopting the client side approach. The Working Group also reported that a possible increase in [[cybersquatting]] may occur upon the implementation of IDN, and the ICANN community suggested several solutions such as the used of [[UNDRP]] arbitrators familiar with non-Latin scripts. The Working Group also found that there were already 1 million registered IDNs waiting for IETF to implement an IDN standard.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/committees/idn/final-report-28aug01.htm#ExecutiveSummary IDN Working Group Report]</ref>

===Recommendations===

===Recommendations===

The ICANN IDN Working Group recommended to ICANN Board to create an [[IDN Steering Committee]], with representatives from the supporting organizations and coordinate with the IETF IDN Working Group to expedite the adoption and implementation of an IDN standard. The IDN Steering Committee should work on promotion of interoperability, cybersquatting prevention, competition, market access and consumer protection principles. Furthermore, [[GAC]] and the Working Group should provide advice to the ICANN Board regarding policy issues related IDN.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/committees/idn/final-report-28aug01.htm#ExecutiveSummary IDN Working Group Report]</ref>

The ICANN IDN Working Group recommended that the ICANN Board create an [[IDN Steering Committee]], with representatives from the [[Supporting Organization]]s, to coordinate with the IETF IDN Working Group to expedite the adoption and implementation of an IDN standard. The IDN Steering Committee should work on promotion of interoperability, cybersquatting prevention, competition, market access and consumer protection principles. Furthermore, [[GAC]] and the Working Group should provide advice to the ICANN Board regarding policy issues related IDN.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/committees/idn/final-report-28aug01.htm#ExecutiveSummary IDN Working Group Report]</ref>

==References==

==References==

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