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<p>Congratulations to UASG's own Sarmad Hussain, for giving a talk
on IDNs at last November's Unicode Technical Workshop in
California! This workshop is where the architects of The Unicode
Standard, internationalisation support in the tech industry's
major software, fonts, and emoji gather. It is quite an expert
audience for the UASG message. <br>
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<p>Session title: <b>Internationalizing the Internet's Domain Name
System</b><br>
<b>Presenter</b>: Sarmad Hussain<br>
<b>Date</b>: 2023-11-07 10:15 PST</p>
<p><b>Abstract</b>: Internet does not just connect machines but also
billions of people around the world communicating a multitude of
languages and scripts. For connecting these people effectively, a
mechanism was needed for the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS)
to support labels in these different languages and scripts they
speak and write. Therefore, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
developed the protocol to allow for Internationalized Domain Names
(IDN) in Applications 2008 (IDNA2008: see RFCs 5890-93) based on
the Unicode standard. Where IDNs make the DNS more accessible for
users, IDNs could also increase the possibility of confusion among
domain labels for these users due to a much larger character-set
allowed. IDNA2008 itself asks for additional measures to address
these challenges. For this purpose, ICANN has supported the
communities using the different scripts encoded in the Unicode to
develop Label Generation Rules (LGRs). These rules go beyond the
specifications in the Unicode and IDNA2008, to balance both
security and usability aspects of using Unicode-based labels in
the different languages and scripts. The session will explain the
technical challenges faced for the different scripts to develop
“unique” labels, and discuss the solutions implemented which
balance the security and usability needs of the communities using
the domain labels.</p>
<p><b>Session web page</b>:
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.unicode.org/events/utw/talks/domain-names/"><https://www.unicode.org/events/utw/talks/domain-names/></a><br>
<b>Slides</b>:
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.unicode.org/events/utw/documents/slides/UTW_2023-Internationalizing_DNS_v2.pdf"><https://www.unicode.org/events/utw/documents/slides/UTW_2023-Internationalizing_DNS_v2.pdf></a><br>
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--Jim DeLaHunt, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jdlh@jdlh.com">jdlh@jdlh.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blog.jdlh.com/">http://blog.jdlh.com/</a> (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://jdlh.com/">http://jdlh.com/</a>)
multilingual websites consultant, Vancouver, Canada
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