Chinese Internet Name Services -Domain Name and Common Name

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Chinese Internet Name Services -Domain Name and
Common Name

• China Internet Network Information Center
• Xiaodong LEE
• Lee_at_cnnic.net.cn

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Topics

• Chinese Domain Name(CDN)
• Special Requirement for CDN
• CNNIC activities on IDN
• CDN system solution
• New policies for CDN
• CDN Registration and Administration
• CNNIC Common Name System
• Function, definition, and architecture
• Value-added services

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Special Requirement for CDN

• CDN is IDN in Chinese language
• Variants in Chinese Scripts(TC/SC equivalence)
• ? ? ?
• ???.CN ? ???.CN
• ???? ???,???,???
• 8 variants
• ???? ???? ???? ????
• ???? ???? ???? ????

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Contribution to IETF

• draft-guonian-idn-ace-eval-cn-00.txt
• draft-ietf-idn-tsconv-00/01/02/03.txt
• draft-deng-idn-icdn-00.txt
• draft-deng-idn-tsmodule-00.txt
• draft-jseng-idn-admin-00/01.txt(co-author)

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CNNIC Activities on IDN/CDN

• CDNC Announcement on current IDN solution in Feb,
  and June 2002
• No solution for Chinese TC/SC equivalence in IETF
  architecture
• No complementary documents for corresponding
  registration and administration
• Aug. 2002, 8th CDNC meeting in Yokohama
• Joint development for CDN client software
• Modification on algorithm of IDN guideline draft

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CNNIC Activities on IDN/CDN

• Oct. 2002, 9th CDNC meeting in shanghai
• Discussion on Chinese character variant tables
• Plan to merge two tables into one table in Dec.
  2002
• Development of client and its support system
• Suggestions on options of the algorithm of
  guideline draft
• Related solutions for deployment
• Client software deployment to fill the interim
  before IETF standard is supported by most
  applications
• Draft IDN registration and administration for
  CJK
• Draft-jseng-idn-admin-01.txt

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CDN System Solution

• IDNANameprepPunycodeIDN-adminCDN-process
• Encoding and architecture are based on the IETF
  standard
• With Chinese variant table, CDN-process will be
  submitted to IETF as a draft
• CNNIC has developed client software,Client
  software support resolution for each other
• Chinese.CN/TW/HK/MO
• Support applications, such as browsers, email and
  so on.
• Servers controlled under CNNIC will support
  variant equivalence, based on guideline
  registration algorithm and special process of
  CNNIC

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CDN Registration and Administration

• Follow the guideline for IDN registration and
  administration for CJK, contributed by JET
• JET is abbreviation of Joint Engineer Team,
  formed by engineers of Mainland China, Taiwan,
  Japan and Korea
• Algorithm of CDN registration and administration
• Registries will select the same locale set, so
  that user could get the same result after he
  registered in any registries of CDNC
• The original domain name and its corresponding
  TCSC domain name will be added into zone file
  for resolution. The other associated domain names
  will be reserved based on some special policies
  to protect the registrants interest.

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CDN Registration and Administration

• The Chinese character variant table for CDN
• It includes 20954 Chinese characters, and three
  columns
• Based on some existed standards or materials, the
  basic tables made by each NICs have been
  completed, and have been checked by some Chinese
  language experts and Chinese information
  processing experts
• These tables has been merged and checked by
  experts for future application in CDNC
  registration and administration, it will be
  finished near soon.

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New policies

• Regulations for China Internet Domain Name
  Administration
• Issued on Aug.1,2002.The Ministry of Information
  Industry(MII,China)
• Effected on Sep.30,2002
• Suitable for .CN domain names and Chinese
  domain names
• Second-level domain name registration will be
  opened in Mar. 17 2003
• Registry(CNNIC) ltgt Registrar(23 registrar) ltgt
  over 2000 agents(resellers), authorized by the
  registrars

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CNNIC Common Name System(CNS)
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CNNIC Common Name System

• Common Name System was opened in Aug. 4, 2001
• Function
• User input common name in browser address bar
• Translate common name into URL
• Definition
• Strings assembled by Chinese characters,
  letters, digits, -,, (, ) ,,, ,
  , and will be permitted to be
  registered into common name
• Contributions to IETF
• draft-xdlee-cnnamestr-00/01.txt
• draft-arrouye-keywords-reqs-01.txt (co-author)

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CNS Architecture
Common Name response Server
Web-based Server
Application Server
Browser with CNNIC plug-in
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CNS Value-added Services

• Common Name for stock query
• Common Name in Voice

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Stock query
Stock No.000001
Common Name 000001 s000001

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Common Name in Voice
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• Thank You!