Why is it that we have very interesting discussion openly during dinner or breakfast, but put everyone on a panel on stage, everyone become so quiet and so polite? This happened at my IDN Workshop yesterday. I wasn’t able to join the pre-panel dinner but I was told everyone have a lot of interesting debates. […]
Tag: IDN
Arrived in Cape Town
Arrived in Cape Town last night. I think they overbooked the hotel so they give me a president suite1 which is pretty nice but pointless for me. Never figure out why anyone need such a big room. Anyway, I am here for the ICANN meeting. Particularly, I am helping to moderate a panel for the […]
IDN Top Level Domain
Update: This article is also published on CircleID. Last month, John Klensin wrote an article published on CircleID regarding Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) Top Level Domains (TLD). Based on his Internet Draft, John suggests using language translation in the application for TLD. The advantage of this method is that all existing TLDs can now be […]
Happenings at WTSA
I totally screwed up on the IDN presentation yesterday. Jetlag hits me pretty badly so my brain is totally blanked out. I remember looking at the confused look at the audience and wanted to dig a hole right there. (I did much better on my IPv6 presentation which went very smoothly) Anyway, as I mention, […]
Internationalization and IDN
Today is the 2nd day of APEC TEL 30, which is hosted by IDA in Singapore. I spend my afternoon at a side event, organized by APDIP to soliciate feedbacks from AP region on Internet Governance issues as part of the WSIS process workings towards Tunis 2005. And I gave a presentation on my fav […]
IDN support in browsers
I just left NIDA stealing some of the IP packets :-) While there, I bounced in Dongman Lee and Chanki Park. Park is an old friend who is currently the manager in charged of the .KR domain names registry and we have a brief chat about Korean domain names. Apparently, they have over 80,000 thousand […]
Back from ICANN…
I feel quite bad to controdiact Vint Cerf in the open forum but my comment that whether to have IDN Top Level Domain is an ICANN issues and not IETF was well-received with an applause from the audience. So I am really glad that ICANN board passing the resolution to form a new President committee […]
ICANN IDN Workshop
I am back in KL today for the ICANN IDN Workshop. Yes, I am one of the unnamed speaker for the morning session chair’ed by Sharil and Vint Cerf. John Klensin basically took over the stage giving a tutorial of the higher level problem, the Internationalization or more accurately the multilingualism of the Internet. John […]
Pre-ICANN meeting
I am in Kuala Lumpur this wekend to give an overview of IDN to Government Advisory Committee of ICANN. This ICANN meeting seem to be political charged, surrounding mainly on the 15M USD proposed budget for ICANN and heated discussion in ccNSO. There are also some discussion about new sponsorred TLD and and .net redelegation. […]
Going up to ICANN…
Just concluded a successful APEET meeting in Singapore (thanks you!) and I am getting to leave for Kuala Lumpur in 10mins time. But before I leave, I thought of leaving two interesting news I saw today. First, is a report of Verisign SiteFinder by Steve Crocker (a representive of Security and Stability Advisory Committee of […]