JET Meeting Report - Agreement on IDN Registration Policy -

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JET Meeting Report- Agreement on IDN
Registration Policy -

• Mar. 11, 2002
• Kazunori Konishi, Kenny Huang
• (JPNIC) (TWNIC)

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What is JET?

• Joint Engineering Team for Internationalized
  Domain Names
• Members CNNIC, JPNIC, KRNIC, TWNIC
• Observers IETF IDN WG Chair, VGRS
• Last Meeting Mar. 4-6, 2002 in Bangkok

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SC/TC vs. Age (personal observation!)

• Simplified Characters(SC) are easy for children
• Easy to write
• Small number of the character set
• Traditional Characters(TC) are often preferred by
  senior folks
• Beautiful characters with a writing brush, etc.
• (Executives are often requested to write their
  beliefs with a writing brush)
• Identity of ancestry

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What was the dispute?

• Chinese(CNNIC TWNIC) insisted to adopt 11
  SC/TC equivalence in the protocol layer
• Pros Easy access
• Cons Complex normalization
• Japanese(JPNIC) insisted not to adopt any SC/TC
  equivalence
• Pros Self-Identity Simple system
• Cons DRP cases

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Registration Policy Agreed

• 1. Registration policy MUST comply with the IETF
  Standards.
• Language specific solutions SHOULD comply
  with the appropriate language standards.
• 2. Variants of CJK domain names MUST be handled
  in the registration policy.
• 3. Variants of CJK domain names MUST be reserved
  for or delegated to the same registrant.

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Registration Procedure

• 1. Unified 1multiple SC/TC equivalence table
  should be edited for CJK characters recommended
  for a language can be designated.
• 2. A Registrant should select the language(s),
  and require the registration of his own choice.
• 3. Activation of the requested domain name(s)
  Reservation of the equivalence(s) should be
  provided by the Registry, within the
  language-based character set.
• 4. The registrant can require the activation of
  the reserved equivalent domain name(s) at any
  time.

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Schedule

• 2002.3.20 IETF Draft on IDN Registration
• Policy.
• 2002.6 Unified TC/SC equivalence table for
• Chinese/Japanese/Korean
  domains names
• 2002.? Informational RFC on IDN
• Registration Policy
• ICANN Recommendation on IDN
• Registration Policy

ltFurther technical developments are also
expected!gt