Hi Sergei
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Subject: [ga] ccTLD Joint Workshop on Multilingual Internet Names in
Yokohama
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FYI.
DNSO Secretariat
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2000.7.2
Joint Workshop on Multilingual Internet Names
Date: 2000.7.17 Monday 0900-1700
Place: Yokohama Pacifico (Room 501)
Hosting Organizations:
MINC (Multilingual Internet Names Consortium)
AFTLD
APTLD
IATLD
LACTLD
Organizing Committee:
YJ Park, Co-Chair
Shigeki Goto, Co-Chair
Yann Kwok
Oscar Robles
Peter de Blanc
Antony van Couvering
Program Committee:
Kilnam Chon, Chair
Tan Tinwee
Yoshiro Yoneya
Workshop Program
Theme: Introduction of multilingual internet names to ICANN-INET
participants from 100 countries.
0900-1130 Tutorial
Chair Tan Tinwee
Introduction of what is the multilingual internet names to general users
of the Internet, i.e., ICANN and INET participants
Introduction/overview
Case: multilingual domain names
Case: other multilingual names
1300-1500 Technical Perspective Session
Chaird by Y Yoneya
Describe the current status on technology to support the multilingual
names
James Seng (IETF/idn)
Martin Duerst (IETF/W3C)
David Conrad (ISC/Nominum)
Bill Semich (.nu)
Wen-Sung Chen (TWNIC)
Yasuhiro Morishita (JPNIC)
Patik Falstrom
Manoj Srivastava (NSI)
Open discussion
1530-1700 Global Perspective Session
Chaired by YJ Park
Presentation from each region's perspective(10~15 minutes each) followed
by discussion
Africa (Yann Kwok)
Europe (Eva Froelich)
Arab (Mohamed Gergawi)
Asia (HL Qian)
North America (Peter de Blanc)
Latin America (Oscar Robles)
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My understanding is that a double or even a triple English character is
needed to represent a foreign alphabet character. I'm sorry but I don't
know what the outcome of the workshop was.
This might give you a lead.
Patrick Corliss
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From: Sergei V. Kolodka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 10:49 PM
Subject: Not ASCII chars in domain name ???
>
> Somebody know something adout that ?
> Just read about that on local newsline but
> want to read full story from "first hands"
> There was something about NSI ready to begin
> test of system, which allow to use in domain
> names non-ASCII characters like chinese, arabic
> or european special symbols.
> Question is how i can access site with
> chinese symbols in name with only english
> keyboard and english software ? :)
> And is OpenSRS involved in that ?
>
> Regards,
> Sergei
>
>