For information: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ccnso-council] IDN related activities Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:37:21 +0900 To: ccNSO Council Dear ccNSO Council, I wish you a happy new year! Following the previous ccNSO conference call on December 14, here I drafted a preliminary IDN-related issues list for our further discussion. A. Your comments/additions/modification are very welcome. B. Discussion on Section 4 (How ccTLDs behave as a group) is expected. Hiro ============================================================== IDN-related activities 1. Resources (1) IETF RFCs - RFC3454 (TRINGPREP) http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3454.txt - RFC3490 (IDNA) http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3490.txt - RFC3491 (NAMEPREP) http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3491.txt - RFC3492 (Punycode) http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3492.txt (2) ICANN guidelines for IDN implementation - Version2.0 http://www.icann.org/general/idn-guidelines-14nov05.htm (3) Unicode Technical Documents - UTR#36 (Unicode Security Considerations) http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/ - UTS#39 (Unicode Security Mechanisms) http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/tr39-1.html (4) ICANN President's Advisory Committee for IDNs - no documents so far 2. Current main topics (1) IDN TLD introduction - ready or not - steps of introduction (2) IDN technical issues - revision of guidelines - BCP development (in the IETF field) - security (e.g., phishing) (3) IDN policy issues - language table development - reserved domain names (e.g., geographical names) - trademarks protection (considering transliteration and translation) (4) applications - readiness of + browsers + e-mails + others 3. How ccTLDs are related wrt. these issues (1) IDN registration services for the same languages as other TLDs (2) IDN TLDs equivalent to ccTLDs (3) demand for IDN-aware applications 4. How ccTLDs behave as a group (1) level of activities (a) information sharing - among ccTLDs - with gTLDs (b) discussion - publicize consensus among ccTLDs - just a discussion (2) structure (a) Working Group? (b) no specific structure (= just a topic in meetings)? ==============================================================