Multilingual Domain Names: The Korean Perspective Young-Eum Lee KRNIC
Multilingual Issues Technical: Which code? Domain Names Non Domain Names Social/Cultural: What does it mean? Management/Policy Intellectual Property DRP
Technical Issues Domain Names ML.ascii: 삼성.kr ML.ML: 삼성. 한국 Non Domain Names Keywords: 삼성 MINC Keyword WG -> IETF Keyword BoF
KRNIC Test Purpose To test our Registry-Agency system To find out problems regarding Hangeul Domain Name Period : From March 16,2001 – April 25,2001 Provided following services Hangeul Domain Name Registration Service Whois services through KRNIC’s homepage Domain Name Resolution Service
Results 1450 Domain Names were registered The rate of successful connection to websites 737 / 1450 = 50.8% Due to the following reasons, no web page wrong IP addresses : 1.9% No IP addresses : 29.7% ETC. : 17.6% HNIC : 891Dotname : 174 HINC : 64Whoisnic : 321
ML Domain Names ML.ascii Currently Managed by ICANN ICANN’s IDN Committee, IETF IDN WG ML.ML ML.ccTLD - 삼성. 한국 ML.languageTLD - 교육. 한글 ML.gTLD - 삼성. 기업
ML Non Domain Names Keyword – client side, server side solution Automatically adding.com or.co.kr to the address in the browser – client side solution
Management of ML Domains ICANN? ML.ascii space Respective Language Community? Language space, Country Code space Some other international organization? ML.MLgTLD
Comments Technical coordination of ML domain names is a critical part of its successful implementation. Development of ML domain names should keep the local internet community in mind. There are ML domain names as well as ML non domain names which are currently being used.