Joint UNESCO and ITU
Global Symposium on Promoting the Multilingual Internet
NASK
Geneva, 9-11 May 2006

Agenda o o o o o
Preparation period
Launch of IDNs
Statistics
Policy development
Plans
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Preparations o o o o o o o a study of the subject test registrations establishment of a registration policy preparation of an on-line conversion tool and a registration system trainings of a contact centre creation of an IDN WWW sub-service
(http://www.dns.pl/IDN/)
PR activities
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Registration assumptions o o o o o o o no Sunrise period
First Comes First Served (FCFS) rule no trademark protection registration of an ACE form of an IDN only no language tags no automatic variant/equivalent domain name registration registration of domain names with other prefixes prohibited
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Impact on other services and systems
No impact on: o a billing system o o o a whois service online electronic forms at NASK the Terms and Conditions - a subject of an agreement between registry and registrant is an ACE form of an IDN
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Before the launch o o o press conference (March 2003) series of presentations on international conferences: : CENTR Administrative Workshop
(Frankfurt 2003), CENTR Technical Workshop
(Frankfurt 2003), IETF (Viena 2003) and RIPE
(Amsterdam 2003)
11 August 2003 - IDN registration rules under
.pl were published at IETF as an Internet-Draft
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The launch
Phase 1 o 11 September 2003 - release of IDNs under .pl only o an IDN could contain only Polish diacritics: ą (U+0105), ć (U+0107), ę (U+0119), ł (U+0142), ń (U+ 0144), ó
(U+00F3), ś (U+015B), ź (U+017A), ż (U+017C)
Phase 2 o o
18 September 2003 - the launch of IDNs registration under second level domain names governed by NASK only Polish diacritics
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Statistics
Weekly registration of IDNs period: 09.2003 - 09-2004
Phase 1
1600
1400
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
Phase 2
Weeks
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Statistics
Monthly registrations of IDNs in 2003/2004
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
Months
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Statistics
Monthly registrations of IDNs in 2005
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
Jan Feb Mar A pr May Jun
Month
Jul A ug Sept Oct Nov Dec
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Statistics
Number of IDNs per month
4600
4500
4400
4300
4200
4100
4000
Jan Feb Mar A pr May Jun
Month
Jul A ug Sept Oct Nov Dec
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Policy development o o o o
6 October 2003 - adding the German diacritics
ä (U+00E4), ö (U+00F6), ü (U+00FC).
20 October 2003 - adding selected characters from Unicode scripts: Latin-1 Supplement and
Latin Extended-A;
3 November 2003 - release selected characters from Unicode scripts: Arabic, Greek, Hebrew;
26 February 2004 - release of characters derived from Unicode Cyrillic script.
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IDN registration policy http://www.dns.pl/IDN/idn-registration-policy.txt
o registered only ASCII form of an IDN o o allowed characters are divided into sets:
Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin (includes characters from Latin-1 Supplement and Latin
Extended-A) mixing characters from different sets is not allowed
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IDN registration policy o o
If an IDN contains only ASCII alike characters from the
Cyrillic set: digits, hyphen “-” and a (U+0430), e
(U+0435), o (U+043E), p (U+0440), c (U+0441), y
(U+0443), x (U+0445), s (U+0455), i (U+0456), j
(U+0458) then:
• Cyrillic characters are mapped to similar ASCII characters
• check is performed whether a translated domain name into ASCII characters is registered yet or not
• if the translated domain name into ASCII characters
(e.g. 123-coca.pl) is registered, then registration of the
IDN is forbidden.
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IANA language tables registry http://www.iana.org/assignments/idn/registered.htm
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Plans
Preventive system against domain spoofing.
The special “anti-spoofing” mechanism will be implemented in the registry system. The mechanism, is to filter out all singlescript spoofable domains (not only IDNs) during a registration process, create variant domains in accordance with a mapping table and check against existing domains (both IDNs and ASCII one). A registration process will be finished successfully when neither being registered domain nor its possible variants exist in the registry system.
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END
Geneva, 9-11 May 2006
Thank You
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