Re: [ispcp] "IDN basics" videos are up on our site
Thanks for sharing these recordings. Now I begin to understand what Language Tables are all about and why Variances are important. Of course - it appears that "cafe.com" and "café.com" have two completely different Registrants... then again - after finding that "posix.eu" was already registered (to a Canadian??), I went and registered "pösix.eu" so I had something to experiment with. Wearing my ISP hat, I have added a very basic form of IDN to my Registrar system - which relies on calls like: $punydomain=idn_to_ascii($domain,IDNA_USE_STD3_RULES); (I'm using PHP)... Seems to work but I'd love to be pointed further in the right direction - working examples... Wearing a "AfTLD" hat, I've volunteered to help promote IDN around Africa (I live in South Africa). Wearing a New-gTLD Applicant (dotafrica) hat - I'm curious what would be needed to eventually support Arabic, French/Portuguese/Spanish and maybe with time, Amharic (Ethiopia).. Has anyone shared (or made "open source") Language Tables and/or canonical mappings for Arabic? So much to learn about... On Sun, 2013-08-25 at 07:38 -0500, Mike O'Connor wrote: > hi all, > > > i walked out of our last call with an action item to get cracking on > the "educate Mikey about IDNs" project that Chris Wright (of the > dotShavaka Registry > (http://xn----1mcbc7cp0fnu.xn--mgbaam7a8h/index-en.php) dreamed up in > Durban. > > > i'm happy to report that we finished it up last week and i've posted > the result to our web site. i think it's great. i learned a *lot* > about IDNs and feel a lot more comfortable talking about them in a > policy context. here's the link to the series: > > > http://www.ispcp.info/policy-resources/idns-a-brief-whirlwind-tour/ > > > and here's what is covered: > > > Session 1: Introduction to IDNs (24:49) – covers the basics of DNS, > ASCII, Unicode, languages and scripts. It focuses on how computers > process domain names. After the session, users will have a better > understanding of the following concepts: encoding systems, ASCII, case > insensitivity of domain names, Unicode, code point, and challenges of > Unicode. > > Session 2: Introduction to IDNA (Internationalized Domain Names for > Applications) (14:40) – covers the basics of the IDNA protocol. After > the session, users will have a better understanding of: what IDNA > does, punycode encoding and decoding, U-Labels and A-Labels. > > Sessions 3: IDN Registrations and Registry/Registrar operations > (25:36) – covers the basics of registry and registrar operational > practices that are needed to support IDNs. After the session, users > will have a better understanding of what registries need to do to > support IDNs, when/where the registry/registrar interaction takes > place. > > Session 4: Blocking Variants (15:02) – covers the basics of variants > of IDNs and how a registry could provision them in order to maintain > the security of an IDN namespace. It provides examples of variants, > the security issues they pose, challenges of supporting variants, and > one registry’s practice to handle variant blocking. > > Session 5: Activating Variants (16:46) – covers the basics of blocked > vs active variants, what the challenges of activating variants are > from a registry’s perspective, and Shavaka Registy’s approach to > active variants. > > Session 6: IDNs putting it all together (15:15) – a brief review of > the topics covered in this series, an overview of some of the > challenges for IDN adoption and a brief discussion of why IDNs matter. > > Here’s a link to the slide deck that Chris used during the > conversation. > > > > > the whole series comes to something over 3 hours -- so i'd suggest > taking it in a few bites rather than all at once. but most of the > bites are pretty manageable -- about 15 minutes long. there are a > couple 25 minute ones that cover topics that just didn't split up very > well. > > > see what you think. all the credit for the good ideas belongs to > Chris Wright and Steve Sheng. all the bad ideas are mine. > > > mikey > > PHONE: 651-647-6109, FAX: 866-280-2356, WEB: www.haven2.com, HANDLE: > OConnorStP (ID for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) > > -- . . ___. .__ Posix Systems - (South) Africa /| /| / /__ mje@xxxxxxxxxxx - Mark J Elkins, Cisco CCIE / |/ |ARK \_/ /__ LKINS Tel: +27 12 807 0590 Cell: +27 82 601 0496 Attachment:
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