[council] For information: Hiro Hotta email to ccNSO on IDNs

[Bruce Tonkin]

For information:

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Subject: [ccnso-council] IDN related activities
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:37:21 +0900
To: ccNSO Council 

Dear ccNSO Council,

I wish you a happy new year!

Following the previous ccNSO conference call on December 14, here I
drafted a preliminary IDN-related issues list for our further
discussion.

A. Your comments/additions/modification are very welcome.
B. Discussion on Section 4 (How ccTLDs behave as a group) is
    expected.

Hiro

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IDN-related activities

1. Resources

(1) IETF RFCs
     - RFC3454 (TRINGPREP)
         http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3454.txt
     - RFC3490 (IDNA)
         http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3490.txt
     - RFC3491 (NAMEPREP)
         http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3491.txt
     - RFC3492 (Punycode)
         http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3492.txt
(2) ICANN guidelines for IDN implementation
     - Version2.0
         http://www.icann.org/general/idn-guidelines-14nov05.htm
(3) Unicode Technical Documents
     - UTR#36 (Unicode Security Considerations)
         http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/
     - UTS#39 (Unicode Security Mechanisms)
         http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/tr39-1.html
(4) ICANN President's Advisory Committee for IDNs
     - no documents so far

2. Current main topics

(1) IDN TLD introduction
     - ready or not
     - steps of introduction
(2) IDN technical issues
     - revision of guidelines
     - BCP development (in the IETF field)
     - security (e.g., phishing)
(3) IDN policy issues
     - language table development
     - reserved domain names (e.g., geographical names)
     - trademarks protection (considering transliteration and
       translation)
(4) applications
     - readiness of
       + browsers
       + e-mails
       + others

3. How ccTLDs are related wrt. these issues

(1) IDN registration services for the same languages as other
     TLDs
(2) IDN TLDs equivalent to ccTLDs
(3) demand for IDN-aware applications

4. How ccTLDs behave as a group

(1) level of activities
   (a) information sharing
     - among ccTLDs
     - with gTLDs
   (b) discussion
     - publicize consensus among ccTLDs
     - just a discussion
(2) structure
   (a) Working Group?
   (b) no specific structure (= just a topic in meetings)?
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