Geoff Hudston wrote an article for ISP Column on ENUM called “Lord of the Numbers“, one of the best introduction to ENUM I have seen so far. Incidently, Geoff said this in his article: Interestingly enough a close inspection of your local table of international dialing codes and a close inspection of the E.164 registry […]
Category: Technology
IDN-OSS project
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 […]
Afghanistan support in Apple
Michael Everson wrote: I am pleased to announce that Mac OS 10.3 (Panther) is now shipping keyboard layouts which support the Afghan Pashto, Afghan Dari, and Afghan Uzbek keyboard layouts specified in the Computer Locale Requirements of Afghanistan report http://www.evertype.com/standards/af and that at least one of Apple’s shipping Arabic fonts, Geeza Pro, has full glyph […]
fältström.se
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 […]
BoF on ENUM/SIP
There are many countries who have been experimenting with ENUM/SIP. At least I know the folks in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Australia, Sweden, Austria (etc etc) who are experimenting with ENUM/SIP. I met up with Yoneya a couple of days ago in Japan. So after seeing some of the JPRS work on ENUM, I suggested […]
Unicode 4.0
Yippee! Finally got my Unicode 4.0