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IDNs in Norway wwTLD-meeting 26.03.2003 Hilde Thunem What is happening in Norway? Two main areas : Technical (how do we make IDNs work?) and policy (rules for IDNs) Technical: We will be following the IETF standard Policy: A proposal is currently out for public comment by the Norwegian Internet community 2 Policy: Internationalization has its costs DNS: IETF standard handles all non a-z characters equally Technical consequences outside DNS Billing systems Whois Customer databases Administrative consequences User support both at the registry and at the registrar ADRP – must handle all scripts that are allowed under the TLD 3 Policy: Internationalization has its costs Legal consequences A larger namespace – new opportunities for domain name pirates Characters that look the same ВЕНЕМОТН [Cyrillic] BEHEMOTH [Latin, Helvetica] BEHEMOTH [Latin, Times, italics, red] Final important point: IDNs will be used locally, for the local users of a language. Users without the relevant characters on the keyboard will probably hesitate to enter a IDN given them on a business card. Domain name holders that want to reach a global community will therefore probably still use a-z domains 4 Policy proposal on limiting the characters under .no Only characters in written languages that has official status as Norwegian languages The letters a-z, numbers 0-9 and The special Norwegian characters æøå In addition: Bokmål and nynorsk (Norwegian language council) • à, ç, è, é, ê, ñ, ò, ó, ô, ü, ä Sámi (Sámi council) • Northern Sámi: á, č, đ, ŋ, š, ŧ, ž • Southern Sámi: none • Lule Sámi: á and ń Personal names (The Norwegian register of names) • ä, é, è, ô, ö and ü Whether to use language variant tables will be considered after the Local Internet community has given its input on which languages that will be allowed 5 Transition mechanism Three choices: The big bang Draw lots Open at a given time, first come first served Accept applications over a period, and then randomly determine the order they are treated in Give special rights to some Based on prior trademark rights, prior domain name registrations etc. 6 Policy proposal on transition for .no: Draw lots Equal chances for everyone No special rights for holders of prior registrations. Today’s policy explicitly states that registering a domain name does not give the holder any new rights that he did not already have Procedural strengths: The registry may return wrong applications, and if there is still time the registrar can correct them and send them in again before the drawing commences Duplicate applications are eliminated, so that applicants need not go to lots of different registrars and fill up their capacity More robust for temporary technical problems at the registry or registrars It worked once… (at the liberalization of .no) 7 More information Norid’s proposal: www.norid.no/regelverk/forslag/idn-2003/ Only in Norwegian, but English translation coming soon at www.norid.no/regelverk/forslag/idn-2003/index.en.html [email protected] www.norid.no/ 8