IDN Liaison Report January 2010
- Laura Kolker
IDN ccTLD Fast Track
On 21st Jan, ICANN announced that 4 IDN ccTLDs Fast Track request has pass the String Evaluation. The 4 IDN ccTLDs are Egypt, the Russian Federation, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. (link)
ALAC Statement on Final Report on Three-Character Requirement and Variant Management
On 3rd Dec, the IDN-Implementation Working Team has published the Final Report on three-character requirement and variant management for public comment. (link)
On 19th Dec, I prepared a statement for At-Large community feedback, and a final version was done by 10th Jan incorporating comments from the community.
ALAC Statement on Final Report on Three-Character Requirement and Variant Management was put to an online vote closing on 16th Jan and on 18th Jan was submitted to ICANN after ratification.
IETF IDNAbis Working Group
On 12nd Jan, IESG has approved 3 Internet Drafts by the working group as Proposed Standards.
- Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA): Protocol draft-ietf-idnabis-protocol-18.txt
- Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): Definitions and Document Framework draft-ietf-idnabis-defs-13.txt
- The Unicode code points and IDNA draft-ietf-idnabis-tables-09.txt
These Proposed Standards (collectively known as IDNA2008) replaced RFC 3490 (also known as IDNA2003).
(There were some debates whether it should be called IDNA2010 instead of IDNA2008 but it was decided the major decisions were made in 2008 so it should remain as IDNA2008)
James Seng
25th Jan 2010