IDN Coordination with ICANN

1
IDN Coordination with ICANN

• DNSO
• 2001 Annual ICANN Meeting

2
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

3
Misson of MINC

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

4
Scope of multilingual Internet Names

• Domain Names
• IDN.ascii TLDs(ccTLD and gTLD)
• IDN.multilingual TLDs
• Non-Domain Names
• Keywords

5
Interoperability Testing

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

6
mTLD 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,

7
mTLD Space Dispute Resolution

• To form Arbitration Committee between the
  relevant entities, MINC and ICANN
• More details will be explored.

8
Language Code TLD(lcTLD)Space Coordination

• Call for proposal for all ccTLDs 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