Bridging the Digital Divide Multilingual Internet Address

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Bridging the Digital DivideMultilingual Internet
Address

• J. SARUULTUYA
• Datacom LLC
• saruultuya_at_datacom.mn

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Contents

• Question What is the Digital Divide?
• Question How to bridge?
• Mongolian case
• The evolution of Internet Address
• Disadvantages in current DNS system
• Multilingual Internet Address
• Global situation
• Mongolian situation

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Question

• What is the Digital Divide?

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How to bridge the Digital Divide?

• Important factors

• Network Infrastructure
• - Connection Broadband
• - PC distribution
• Digital content Development
• - Information in native language
• - Native language web site development
• Other
• - Knowledge Computer training
• - Economic Low price

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Question
Are these enough to overcome the Digital Divide?
Answer

• No. Language barrier again.

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Problem
Website ? Destination
Network ? Roads
Internet Addresses ? Road signs
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Problem

• Road signs all in ENGLISH!

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The evolution of Internet Address
3d generation Multilingual Internet Address
2d generation DNS/URL www.ulaanbaatar.mn
1st generation - IP address 202.131.0.10
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Current DNS system

• DNS is an identifier look-up system for machines

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Current DNS system

• ASCII based
• 11 match
• Must be exact

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Current DNS system

• Domain name
• Easy to remember!
• Q Is it true for non English nations who has
  different language and different scripts?
• A Sometimes, but mostly NO!

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Current DNS system

• Machines address OR humans address?
• Domain name VS Real Identity
• www.pmis.gov.mn VS ??????? ?????

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Multilingual Internet Address

• Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)
• www.????????????.mn
• Multilingual Keyword Lookup
• ??????? ?????

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Resolution structure
Root
.
com
org

mn
lb

gov
yahoo
miat
???????????
pmis
wikipedia
Top down RS vs Bottom up RS
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Multilingual Internet Address

• Unicode based
• Supports ASCII characters
• Supports non ASCII characters

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Multilingual Internet Address

• Domain Name
• ASCII
• A-Z, 0-9, hyphen
• Global resolution
• 11 lookup
• Web navigation
• Email address
• www.pmis.gov.mn

• IDName
• ASCII
• non ASCII
• 32 different charsets
• 350 languages
• Global resolution
• 11 lookup
• Web navigation
• Email address
• www.????????????.mn

• Keyword Lookup
• ASCII
• non ASCII
• 32 different charsets
• 95 languages
• Global resolution
• 11 1n lookup
• Web navigation
• Email address
• ??????? ?????

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Multilingual Internet Address

• Global status
• IDName 18 gTLDs and 15 ccTLDs
• com, net, info, at, bz, cc,
• Keyword lookup 13 ISPs, ccTLDs, and other
• China, South Korea, Turkey

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Multilingual Internet Address

• Situation in Mongolia
• Keyword lookup
• ccTLD .MN Registry Datacom LLC
• Service launch in May 2007

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Multilingual Internet Address
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References

• www.monname.mn
• www.ietf.org
• www.icann.org
• www.verisign.com
• Geoff Huston Internationalizing the Internet
• Sarah Langstone Verisign IDN workshop
• Steve Lee Internet communication in Arabic
  language Expert group meeting on Promotion of
  Digital Arabic content
• Kyung Ij Kim Global architecture for
  multilingual keyword lookup Global Symposium on
  Promoting the Multilingual Internet

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Multilingual Internet Address

• Thank you for the attention!
• Any further inquiry to saruultuya_at_datacom.mn