According to the article from Reuters (via Internet Policy), Khaled Fattal of MINC is asking 6M USD to solve the Arabic Domain Names. WTF!? 6M USD to do Arabic Domain Names1? I suppose CJK has 1000x more characters then Arabic, we probably should ask 6B USD to produce RFC 3743. Okay, maybe it is not […]
Tag: IDN
CircleID on RFC 3743
CircleID asked me to write an article on our recently published RFC 3743. Check it out and let me know what you think (apart from the grammer mistakes which I keep finding everytime i read it again :-) It is difficult to explain RFC 3743 or commonly known as the Joint Engineering Team (JET) Guidelines […]
Etisalat Arabic Domain Name
I feel so proud :-)
RIPE-NCC Dubai
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]