[EURO-Discuss] IDN Wikis Go Live - in 11 Languages - http://idn.icann.org
Nick Ashton-Hart
nick.ashton-hart at icann.org
Mon Oct 15 09:59:57 EDT 2007
From http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-15oct07.htm
My Name, My Language, My Internet: IDN Test Goes Live
ICANN launches global test of Internationalized Domain Names
15 October 2007
ICANN is celebrating the ability of people to get "My name, My
Language. My Internet" wiki pages with the launch of the IDN
evaluation with T-Shirts displaying example.test in the 11 languages.
MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: Internet users around the globe can now
experiment with their name in their language on their Internet with
today’s launch of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers live testing of Internationalized Domain Names in 11 languages.
“This is one of the most exciting times yet in the development of
IDNs,” said Dr Paul Twomey, ICANN’s President and CEO. “Internet
users who speak the 11 languages of the test can play a key role in
testing how IDNs operate, and help us move toward full implementation
for all the languages of the world.”
Internet users around the globe can now to access wiki pages with the
domain name example.test in the 11 test languages -- Arabic, Persian,
Chinese (simplified and traditional), Russian, Hindi, Greek, Korean,
Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil. The wikis will allow Internet users to
establish their own subpages with their own names in their own
language -- one suggestion is: example.test/yourname.
ICANN has also put a video explaining the evaluation process on
YouTube, and available on the ICANN website.
The wiki pages can be accessed by typing example.test in the
characters of one of the 11 languages, or by going to http://
idn.icann.org.
“These wikipages are key to the test. We want to know how the URL
displays in the Internet browser, if it works when you cut and paste
it into the body of an email to a friend, and how all of this impacts
the root zone,” Dr Twomey added.
The 11 evaluation wikis will remain online until IDNs are fully
implemented and the first top-level domain is introduced in the
evaluation language.
The full introduction of IDNs will mean that people can write the
whole of a domain name in the characters used to write their own
language. Presently you can only use these characters before the dot,
so .com, .net, .org and the like can only be written in characters
from basic Latin. IDNs will change this so that literally tens of
thousands of characters will be available to the world.
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Regards,
Nick Ashton-Hart
Director, At-Large
ICANN
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