Selected International Domain Names topics
Dr Tan Tin Wee, Vice-Chairman MINC
28 November 2001.
Administration and Management of IDN TLDs:
Language or script, one size doesn't fit all.
Will the Legacy TLD-unified roots survive or
will there be OpenNIC-type inclusive root models?
one language one script one country = Hebrew/Israel Ancient Icelandic/Iceland
one language many scripts one country = Japan
one script many languages some countries = Han characters-Chinese=Japanese=Korean
Latin characters - latin based languages
one script many languages many countries = Arabic script-Arabic/Farsi/Urdu
one script many fonts one language no country = Tamil with no specific country
where Tamilians are majority
(Fiji?)
one script one language no country = Klingon, Tolkein languages etc
IDNA interoperability testing
of localisation/folding/IDNA/Nameprep/ACE
and whatever emergent IETF standards.
Application/Vendor-independent Internet keywords or
overlapping colliding keyword namespaces?
Future scenarios of above-DNS layers of Internet names
and identifiers.