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Principles Suggestions on Internationalizing
ccTLD Names

• Chinese Domain Name Consortium (CDNC)
• July 2005

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I. Background

• Urgent need for IDNs, fast development of ccTLDs
  in none-English speaking countries and regions
• Mature system and abundant technical forces
• Supports from governments

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Advantages of IDN

• IDN makes the Internet more friendly
• More achievement in applications of Email, FTP,
  etc.
• The most effective way to popularize the use of
  the Internet in non-English speaking communities.
  
• A need for respecting and guaranteeing the
  culture and special interests of people in
  different regions.

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Urgent Need for IDNs

• Over 64.8 of the global Internet users are not
  English speakers (http//glreach.com/globstats/)
• These countries and regions build up over 66 of
  the world economy
• About 90 of the Internet users prefer to access
  the content in their native languages.
• China now has over 100 million Internet users

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Growth of ccTLDs

• Many non-English speaking countries and regions
  accelerated the growing speed of their ccTLDs
• Users long for localizing their own names

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Mature System and Abundant Technical Force

• Mature IDN solutions exist
• (2003 2004) IETF RFC3490, RFC3491, RFC3492,
  RFC3454, RFC3743
• IDN solutions are stable, feasible and no harm to
  DNS
• Experienced engineers are ready
• Experiments had proved that it is the right time
  to initiate internationalized ccTLD names
  (technique/market)
• If we do not strike the hot iron
• Potential IDN users with exigent needs may choose
  other uncertain solutions
• Threaten the consolidation of the Internet
  standards and the operational stability of the
  Internet

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Supports from Governments

• Governments of many non-English speaking
  countries and regions are aware of the importance
  and necessity of IDN in application.
• With sufficient negotiation with local
  governments, most ccTLD registries may get
  official supports when submit the proposal to
  ICANN.

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II. Principles

1. Give the priority to internationalizing ccTLDs
2. For conveniences sake, only one form of language
   character variant of internationalized ccTLD is
   accepted
3. Supported by their own governments, ccTLD
   registries make self choice of the IDN character
   sets for ccTLDs
4. Clearly state the necessity, pros and cons for
   implementing internationalized ccTLDs in each
   proposal that submitted to ICANN
5. Register and operate the Internationalized ccTLDs
   in the root DNS server in the form of IDNA
   Punycode.

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III Suggestions

• Suggest ICANN to form an evaluation committee on
  internationalized ccTLDs,
• Control the Sponsors Qualification
• Ask for Governments Approval
• Draft the Test Bed Evaluation Report

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Mission 1 Control the Sponsors Qualification

• The proposal shall be submitted by corresponding
  ccTLD registry or government accredited
  institution which meets the following criteria
• The country/region it serves has certain market
  needs
• Possessing abundant technical force in staff,
  equipment and operation
• Having broad support from the local government
  and internet community
• Possessing abundant financial resources.

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Mission 2Ask for Governments Approval

• The proposal shall be fully supported by the
  corresponding government.
• The committee shall require the sponsor to
  provide the approval documentaries issued by the
  government.

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Mission 3Draft the Test Bed Evaluation Report
Trial Operation Submit Proposal
Adjust Re-submit the proposal
Officially Launch
Launching Registry
Full Scale Evaluation
Evaluation Report
Evaluation Committee
JUDGE
ICANN
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Other Concerns

• The committee shall be composed of
  representatives from gNSO and ccNSO, experienced
  DNS engineers, even directors of ICANN board, if
  possible.
• The whole procedure shall be transparent and open
  for public inputs.

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• QA

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Thank You