IDN Coordination with ICANN DNSO 2001 Annual ICANN

IDN Coordination with ICANN DNSO 2001 Annual ICANN Meeting

History of MINC • 1998 Asia Pacific Networking Group (APNG) I-DNS WG Formed • 1999 First Commercial multilingual Internet names provider set-up • 2000 First International Coordination Meeting held during APRICOT • 2000. 2 – 7 Monthly bilateral and multilateral Coordination Meetings held

Misson of MINC • To promote multilingual Internet names • To cover the whole spectrum of the names’ life cycle from R&D to service • To cooperate with other global organizations such as ICANN(IDN Committee etc. ), ISO, Unicode and other regional and national organizations

Scope of multilingual Internet Names • Domain Names – IDN. ascii TLDs(cc. TLD and g. TLD) – IDN. multilingual TLDs • Non-Domain Names – Keywords

Interoperability Testing • • Call for interoperability Testing Vendors and TLD registries Certificate of participation MINC Interoperability stamp

m. TLD Space Plans • Regional and language organizations – Arabic Internet Names Consortium(AINC) – Chinese Domain Names Consortium(CDNC) – Japanese Domain Names Association(JDNA) – International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil(INFITT) – Others • Korean, Urdu, Russian,

m. TLD Space Dispute Resolution • To form Arbitration Committee between the relevant entities, MINC and ICANN • More details will be explored.

Language Code TLD(lc. TLD) Space Coordination • Call for proposal for all cc. TLDs in conjunction with ICANN – Multilingual TLDs in Arabic -- AINC – Multilingual TLDs in Tamil -- INFITT – Multilingual TLDs in Zhongwen(Chinese) – Multilingual TLD in Hangul(Korean) – Multilingual TLDs in Russian