Comments on: Vint in International Herald Tribune on IDNs http://patrick.vande-walle.eu/internet/icann/vint-in-international-herald-tribune-on-idns/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vint-in-international-herald-tribune-on-idns Random thoughts about the Internet and life Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:33:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: vint cerf http://patrick.vande-walle.eu/internet/icann/vint-in-international-herald-tribune-on-idns/comment-page-1/#comment-2658 vint cerf Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:42:47 +0000 http://patrick.vande-walle.eu/internet/icann/vint-in-international-herald-tribune-on-idns/#comment-2658 patrick, The critical path at this point is the IETF's work on re-examining how to specify which characters to include from the large UNICODE set for use with IDNs. There are RFCs (4690) and several Internet Drafts on the subject. ICANN is already doing IDN testing in a laboratory copy of the root zone file and live tests could be underway by the end of the year or sooner. we also need to establish the rules for creating new TLDs, including those with IDNs. That work is under way in the GNSO. Once confidence can be established in the IDN character inclusion rules, then the pacing item will be evaluation of proposals for new TLDs. patrick,
The critical path at this point is the IETF‘s work on re-examining how to specify which characters to include from the large UNICODE set for use with IDNs. There are RFCs (4690) and several Internet Drafts on the subject. ICANN is already doing IDN testing in a laboratory copy of the root zone file and live tests could be underway by the end of the year or sooner. we also need to establish the rules for creating new TLDs, including those with IDNs. That work is under way in the GNSO.

Once confidence can be established in the IDN character inclusion rules, then the pacing item will be evaluation of proposals for new TLDs.

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