Re: [idn] next language

["FDU - Sung Jae Shim" <sshim@mailbox.fdu.edu>]

FYI

The following article reports on the position of China as to the
registration of domain names in Chinese-language.

http://www.cnn.com/2000/ASIANOW/business/11/20/ebiz.icann/index.html

Sung

----- Original Message -----
From: Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>
To: Todd Smith <todd@designsouth.net>; <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: [idn] next language


> At 16:35 22/11/2000 -0600, Todd Smith wrote:
> >What is the next language that we will be able to register domains in?
>
> The working group is attempting to come up with a solution that will allow
> registration of names in any language.
>
> So far, it seems that we have to limit ourselves to languages that can be
> written using ISO 10646/Unicode - not very constraining :-)
> Once the standards are done, you can register names in zones you own to
> your heart's content.
>
> Commercial availability of those names in zones like .com is not the
> business of the working group.
> --
> Harald Tveit Alvestrand, alvestrand@cisco.com
> +47 41 44 29 94
> Personal email: Harald@Alvestrand.no
>
>