Re: [ga] RE: IDNs & the GNSO New TLD PDP

[Elisabeth Porteneuve <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Danny,

Thanks for spotting so many interesting documents.

Actually, MINC have been making a terrible noise about
their work on IDN Arabic tables, while Polish Registry
simply did the job, and published all tables thay have
been considering, from Polish (Latin with 7 diacritical
characters) to almost any alphabet-based language,
including Russian, Greec and Hebrew (in 2003 if I remember).

The reffered letter is 18 months old (July 2004).
One could expect MINC making some progress since then
and publishing some reports.

But I could not find any MINC tables on the IANA website 
http://www.iana.org/assignments/idn/registered.htm
(actually IANA IDN tables site is extremely difficult
to find, even with Google help !)

Best regards,
Elisabeth Porteneuve
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> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:18:43 -0800 (PST)
> From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [ga] RE: IDNs & the GNSO New TLD PDP
> To: Vint Cerf <vint@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Vint, you wrote:
> 
> "There are already several tables registered by IANA.
> There is nothing wrong with choosing different tables 
> - one simply needs clarity with regard to permitted
> registrations in any given TLD." 
> 
> I happened to note this correspondence from NASK to
> MINC on the topic of the IANA tables.  I thought this
> might be of interest to you.
> 
> Dear Mr. Fattal,
> 
> In regards to your letter to ICANN and IANA regarding
> ?Arabic
> Language Table? posted by NASK, I would like to assure
> you, MINC
> and the Arabic community that our intention was never
> to cause any disrespect to any community in any way
> shape or form. Our intention was only to support not
> only Polish speaking citizens but also all the
> non-Polish speaking minorities living in Poland. 
> 
> The Decision to launch the Arabic domains registration
> under .pl along with all Latin based languages (i.e.
> German, Slovak, Czech, French, and Lithuanian);
> Cyrillic and Greek is based on the will to support the
> tradition and culture of local ethnic groups and
> minorities living in Poland which is our mission. NASK
> is an organization naturally sensitive and respectful
> to the needs of the Local Internet Communities. Our
> focus is set on full support for Polish language
> characters registration under .pl and the facilitation
> of the adoption of Polish script registration under
> other national DNS registries (ccTLDs) and global DNS
> registries (gTLDs).
> 
> We recognize MINC as the leading organization
> supporting and
> leading the development for deployment of
> Internationalized Domain Names and the
> Multilingualization of the Internet through local
> empowerment and the direct bottom up involvement from
> the local language communities all over the world.
> 
> NASK?s recognition of the right of local language
> communities
> to determine their own language tables and standards
> as your letter to ICANN and IANA had argued and
> stressed has led us to write to ICANN and IANA and
> request the withdrawal of our previous submission of
> not only the Arabic language table but also the Greek
> and Hebrew tables. Furthermore, we are also requesting
> that these posting on the ICANN and IANA websites be
> removed out of respect to these local language
> communities.
> 
> I hope that this good faith action on NASK?s part can
> provide
> the opportunity for cooperation between MINC and NASK
> regarding
> the deployment of Internationalized Domain Names
> towards a full
> Multilingual Internet and supporting your efforts for
> an Arabic
> language Domain Names System. I was pleased to hear
> your vision
> and action plan on how to deploy a Global Multilingual
> Internet
> through local empowerment during your presentation at
> the ICANN
> IDN workshop in Kuala Lumpur July 21st, 2004 which we
> at NASK
> fully agree with and support.
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> Andrzej Bartosiewicz
> Head of DNS Dept., NASK
> 
> http://minc.org/pr/Aug/LettertoMINC.pdf
> 
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