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Issues in IDN

Issues in IDN. APTLD Meeting in Taipai Feb. 24, 2003 Young-Eum Lee. IDN Status. IETF Standard Approved, prefix decided Some gTLDs and ccTLDs registering since 2000 Language Groups being formed Actual deployment mainly in Asia. IDN Status. More than 6000 languages

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Issues in IDN

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  1. Issues in IDN APTLD Meeting in Taipai Feb. 24, 2003 Young-Eum Lee

  2. IDN Status • IETF Standard Approved, prefix decided • Some gTLDs and ccTLDs registering since 2000 • Language Groups being formed • Actual deployment mainly in Asia

  3. IDN Status • More than 6000 languages • About 80 macrolanguages,(+10 million speakers) • 12 megalanguages(English, Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Spanish, Portugese, Russian, Bengali, Arabic, Malay, Indonesian, Japanese, German, French) • Internet Users: English(58%), Spanish (8.7%), German (8.6%), Japanese (7.9%) and French (3.7%). • Web Pages: English(81%), German (4%), Japanese, French and the Scandinavian languages (2% each) and Spanish (1%). Other languages(8%)

  4. The world speaks 6,700 languages and in thirty-seven states more than fifty languages are spoken. But only a little over 100 languages are official tongues. India has nineteen official languages and South Africa eleven.

  5. IDN Issues • Technical • Scripts • Case Folding • 1:n, n:1, n:n • Policy • Registration • DRP

  6. Technical • Scripts • ACE vs. Unicode • Case Folding • ASCII, IDN • 1:n, n:1, n:n • CJK, TC/SC

  7. Policy • Same Character? Same Script? • DRP: international/local • Who decides in cases of conflict?

  8. Recommendations • Global focus needed • Regional, Language, and individual input needed • ccTLDs need to lead • Identify major issues • Present recommendations

  9. Technical • Scripts

  10. “LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY: 3,000 LANGUAGES IN DANGER”http://www.unesco.org/bpi/eng/unescopress/2002/02-07e.shtml

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