1. Multilingual Domain Names: The Korean Perspective Young-Eum Lee KRNIC

2. Multilingual Issues Technical: Which code?  Domain Names  Non Domain Names Social/Cultural: What does it mean?  Management/Policy  Intellectual Property  DRP

3. Technical Issues Domain Names  ML.ascii: 삼성.kr  ML.ML: 삼성. 한국 Non Domain Names  Keywords: 삼성  MINC Keyword WG -> IETF Keyword BoF

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Management of ML Domains ICANN?  ML.ascii space Respective Language Community?  Language space, Country Code space Some other international organization?  ML.MLgTLD

9. 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.