1. IDN Coordination with ICANN DNSO 2001 Annual ICANN Meeting

2. History of MINC 1998 Asia Pacific Networking Group (APNG) I-DNS WG Formed 1999 First Commercial multilingual Internet names provider set-up 2000 First International Coordination Meeting held during APRICOT 2000. 2 – 7 Monthly bilateral and multilateral Coordination Meetings held

3. Misson of MINC To promote multilingual Internet names To cover the whole spectrum of the names’ life cycle from R&D to service To cooperate with other global organizations such as ICANN(IDN Committee etc.), ISO, Unicode and other regional and national organizations

4. Scope of multilingual Internet Names Domain Names –IDN.ascii TLDs(ccTLD and gTLD) –IDN.multilingual TLDs Non-Domain Names –Keywords

5. Interoperability Testing Call for interoperability Testing Vendors and TLD registries Certificate of participation MINC Interoperability stamp

6. mTLD Space Plans Regional and language organizations –Arabic Internet Names Consortium(AINC) –Chinese Domain Names Consortium(CDNC) –Japanese Domain Names Association(JDNA) –International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil(INFITT) –Others Korean, Urdu, Russian,

7. mTLD Space Dispute Resolution To form Arbitration Committee between the relevant entities, MINC and ICANN More details will be explored.

8. Language Code TLD(lcTLD) Space Coordination Call for proposal for all ccTLDs in conjunction with ICANN –Multilingual TLDs in Arabic -- AINC –Multilingual TLDs in Tamil -- INFITT –Multilingual TLDs in Zhongwen(Chinese) –Multilingual TLD in Hangul(Korean) –Multilingual TLDs in Russian