IDN deployment in Russia

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IDN deployment in Russia

• Sergey Charikov
• CEO of Regtime.net
• CEO of RLNIC
• MINC Board Member

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Introduction

• Russian is the primary language of the Russian
  nation. It is also widely used in many other
  countries.
• It is a native or second language for 232.5
  million people in Russia, 11 countries of CIS
  such as Ukraine, Belarussia, Kazakhstan, etc and
  Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
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• Russian is one of official and working languages
  of UN and UNESCO. Besides being the State
  language of the Russian Federation since 1991, it
  is a language of inter-ethnic and international
  dialogue. As such, Russian is considered a global
  language.
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• On November 27, 2002 the Council of the Russian
  Federation approved amendments in the law "About
  languages of the peoples of Russian Federation
  to deal with the Cyrillic characters used in the
  different parts of the Federation.

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Script of the Russian Language

• Based on Cyrillic
• Russian Cyrillic has 33 characters in the Russian
  alphabet.
• Slight difference from Cyrillic used by other
  languages
• Cyrillic script was formalized by St Cyrillic in
  the 9th Century A.D. and subsequently by St
  Clement in Medieval times

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Unicode 3.2 Cyrillic Fonts
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IDN Deployment history

• May 22, 2001 first Cyrillic language domains
  registration launched
• Three Cyrillic's TLDs which are analogs of .com
  .net and .org
• http//www.i-dns.net/newsroom/news/I-RU010312-01.h
  tml.en
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• November 2001 - Russian Language working group of
  MINC created.
• Members of RLWG are famous persons of a
  linguistics science, internet business and
  government structures. http//www.minc.org/WG/rus
  sian/charter1.2.html

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Charter of the RLWG

• The Russian Language Working Group (RLWG) aims to
  co-ordinate efforts
• to develop Russian Internet name system and
  applications,
• providing users with the capability of
• - using Russian language and its standard
  Cyrillic character sets to write domain or
  keyword names and navigate the Internet
• - receive and send email using a Russian language
  email address
• - utilize other global or local network resources
  and resource identifiers in Russian language,
  such as ftp, gopher and server names.

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Where to register IDN in Russia

• There are two main websites in Russia offer to
  register Cyrillic domains
  www.regtime.net and
  www.webnames.ru
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In total some thousands of Cyrillic domains have
been registered, including the Cyrillic domains
president.org and kremlin.org which are
registered under the initiative of the Russian
Presidents Administration. For almost a year,
the former domain name, has been resolving to
Russian President Putins personal homepage
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Interoperability Issues

• Just like Latin script, many languages use
  Cyrillic, including Russian
• Need coordination
• More than 50 European and Asian languages eg.
  Russian, Bulgarian, Azeri, Belarusian, Croatian
  Cyrillic (bosancica), Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian,
  Mongolian Cyrillic, Montenegrin Cyrillic,
  Serbian, Tatar, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Others such as
  Abaza, Abkhasian, Adyghe, Altai, Avar,
  Azerbaijani (Azeri), Bashkir, Buriat, Chechen,
  Chuckchi, Chuvash, Crimean Turkish, Dargwa,
  Dolgan, Dungan, Gagauz, Ingush, Judeo-Tat,
  Kabardian, Kalmyk-Oirat, Karachay-Balkar, Karaim,
  Karakalpak, Khakas, Khanty, Kildin SÃmi, Kirghiz
  (Kyrgyz), Kumyk, Kurmanji, Lak, Kezgi, Mari,
  Moldavian, Nenets, Nogai, Old-Ukranian, Osetin,
  Slavonic, Tabassaran, Tajikik, Turkmen, Tuvin,
  Uyghur, Yakut and other minority languages of
  Russia

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Classification

• Languages that use Cyrillic exclusively
  Russian, Bulgarian
• Languages that use Cyrillic in addition to the
  native script e.g. Mongolian
• Languages that use Cyrillic and other scripts
  e.g. Azeri (Latin and Cyrillic) Croatian
  Glagolitic, Cyrillic and Latin

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Answer to the Challenge of MINC
Interoperability Testing

• Now Regtime.net and RLWG with support of the
  Russian Chamber of Commerce, prominent government
  politicians and influential scientists have
  created Russian Language Network Information
  Center (RLNIC) and Cyrillic Languages Internet
  Names Consortium (CLINC).
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• These entities, with technology licensed from
  I-DNS.net, are in the process of launching
  inter-operability IDN testing within Russia and
  CIS countries.
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• The RLWG has partnered with the RLNIC, which acts
  as the registry operator. The role of the RLWG
  has been to ensure that language and policy
  issues relating to the Russian script as used in
  Russia will be adequately adhered to by all
  parties.

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For more information

• http//www.regtime.net
• http//www.minc.org
• http//www.minc.org/WG/cyrillic/
• http//www.minc.org/WG/russian/
• Sergey Charikov lts.shar_at_regtime.netgt