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<p class=MsoPlainText>My Name, My Language, My Internet: IDN Test Goes Live
ICANN launches global test of Internationalized Domain Names<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><a
href="http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-15oct07.htm">http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-15oct07.htm</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: Internet users around the globe
can now experiment with their name in their language on their Internet with
today’s launch of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
live testing of Internationalized Domain Names in 11 languages.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>“This is one of the most exciting times yet in the
development of IDNs,” <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>said Dr Paul Twomey, ICANN’s President and CEO.
“Internet users who speak the 11 languages of the test can play a key
role in testing how IDNs operate, and help us move toward full implementation
for all the languages of the world.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Internet users around the globe can now to access wiki
pages with the domain name example.test in the 11 test languages -- Arabic,
Persian, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Russian, Hindi, Greek, Korean,
Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil. The wikis will allow Internet users to establish
their own subpages with their own names in their own language<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>-- one suggestion is: example.test/yourname.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>ICANN has also put a video explaining the evaluation
process on YouTube, and available on the ICANN website.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The wiki pages can be accessed by typing example.test in
the characters of one of the 11 languages, or by going to <a
href="http://idn.icann.org">http://idn.icann.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>“These wikipages are key to the test. We want to
know how the URL displays in the Internet browser, if it works when you cut and
paste it into the body of an email to a friend, and how all of this impacts the
root zone,” Dr Twomey added.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The 11 evaluation wikis will remain online until IDNs are
fully implemented and the first top-level domain is introduced in the
evaluation language.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The full introduction of IDNs will mean that people can
write the whole of a domain name in the characters used to write their own
language. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Presently you can only use these characters before the
dot, so .com, .net, .org and the like can only be written in characters from
basic Latin. IDNs will change this so that literally tens of thousands of
characters will be available to the world.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The "example.test" labels with the associated
scripts, the languages that were used for translation of the two terms
"example" and "test", and the A-labels for second and top
level that are inserted in the IDN TLD zones and DNS respectively.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Enjoy the videos!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Mark McFadden<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Secretariat, ISPCP Constituency<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>mcfadden@ispcp.info<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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