I feel so proud :-)

I am flying tonight to Dubai to give a presentation on IDN at the RIPE-NCC meeting (the European Regional Internet Registries). I will be talking abit on IDN-OSS, hopefully getting more support for the project. :-) You can find my presentation here.

This is my first trip to Dubai. Heard a lot of good stuff about it and look forward to going there. (It helps when they offers to pay for the trip too. Thanks!). Will blog as much as I can :-)

After a long delay, I finally got some time this weekend to start doing some work on IDN Open Source Software. It is an idea that was floated around at ICANN Montreal meeting and I spend a couple of weeks putting a proposal together.

..to develop quality RFC-compliant software to support IDN capabilities in different applications (web browsers, email and instant messaging clients, etc) running on all major operating systems (Windows, Mac OS X, Unix etc).

Internet Software Consortium (of BIND, INND fame) has kindly host the project. We also have a Advisory Council.

We need volunteers and donations! :-)

Patrik Fältström send me an email from his new and proud domain fältström.se. Notice there is the swedish character ä and ö? Yep, Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) finally! Yippee!

IDN is the effort of the WG I co-chair (together with Marc Blanchet) from 1999 to 2002 to bring internationalization to domain names, initiated from a project I did back in 1998. You know, if I know what I have to go through to do this, I probably won’t do it in the first place but now it is done, I am really glad I did.

ps: For more info on IDN, see RFC 3454, 3490, 3491 and 3492.