Transcript .JP IDN Implementation June 24, 2003 Hiro Hotta JPRS (Japan Registry Service) [email protected] http://日本レジストリサービス.jp/ © Copyright 2003, JPRS.

.JP IDN Implementation
June 24, 2003
Hiro Hotta
JPRS (Japan Registry Service)
[email protected]
http://日本レジストリサービス.jp/
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Features of Japanese JP Domain Names
• Definition of available characters
– Before starting registration testbed in Feb, 2001,
definition of available character set and character
variants were elaborated and published
• Phased introduction
– priority registration
• already registered as traditional domain names
• trademarks, registered names, personal names in full
– concurrent registration
• Selection of the registrant made by lottery system
– first-Come-First-Served registration
• reserved domain names
– governmental organizations, local governments, etc.
– very popular common nouns (travel, bank, …)
• DRP
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Characters and their Variants
• Nov. 2, 2000
– Technical Specifications published
• Available characters in Japanese JP Domain Names
– Hiragana
あ
– Katakana
ア
– Kanji (based on Japanese Industrial Standard) 亜
• No variants for any character
– draft-ietf-idn-jpchar-00.txt
– draft-ietf-idn-jpchar-01.txt
• June 12, 2003
– Technical specifications revised and published
• Some additional characters are defined as available based on
the change of the environment such as tradename laws
• No variants for anycharacter
– no change
– draft-yoneya-idn-jachar-00.txt
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Requirements for IDN Registration
DNS
root
jp
…
registration
ex) browser
JPRS
・technical standards
・technical standards
・registration policies
(variants, reserved words, …)
Application software
registrant
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Requirements for IDN Registration – continued Technical standards (IETF)
RACE
Punycode
service
registration
policies
registration policies relevant to global coordination
(ICANN)
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Registration Policies
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compliant to RFCs
definition of available character set
each domain name associated with language(s)
setting up policies for IDNs through collaboration
each domain label does not have characters from
different languages (such as Arabic and Chinese), at
least initially
• communications with users are provided with the
languages when characters in the languages are
available in domain names
above guidelines satisfied in .JP
no change necessary for .JP
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History till Service Launch(1)
•
October-November, 2000
– Policies of Japanese Domain Names were published
•
February 22, 2001
– Testbed for Japanese Domain Names was launched
•
March 7, 2003
– IDN-related RFCs were published by IETF
•
March 12, 2003
– JPRS sent a mail to ICANN to notify that it would start IDN
registration following the RFC publication on March 20,
expecting ICANN's instantaneous authorization
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History till Service Launch(2)
•
March 13, 2003
– ICANN posted a document "Standards for ICANN
Authorization of Internationalized Domain Name
Registrations in Registries with Agreements" which went as
• guidelines will be set up for IDN registration
• registries with ICANN agreement must commit to satisfy
the guidelines before starting IDN registration
•
March 17, 2003
– JPRS decided to postpone its service launch as it believed
coordination among registries with regard to such guidelines
was very important for the Internet users
•
March 22-26, 2003
– IDN-RIC's face-to-face meetings during Rio de Janeiro
ICANN meetings to polish the guidelines
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History till Service Launch(3)
•
March 25, 2003
– In Public Forum in Rio de Janeiro, the content of the
guidelines were generally supported and it was said by an
ICANN staff that the approval of IDN service would start in a
couple of weeks
•
March 26, 2003
– Board authorized President to implement the guidelines by
authorizing registration of IDNs in registries with agreements
with ICANN on the basis of those guidelines
•
March 27 –
– Discussions were continued in IDN-RIC (Registry
Implementation Committee) mailing listJune 10, 2003
– Japanese Government raised an issue in GAC about the
slowness of the IDN registration authorization process
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History till Service Launch(4)
•
June 12, 2003
– JPRS sent a mail to ICANN president to convey the frustration
of the Internet community and urge ICANN to accelerate the
process of starting IDN registration
– JPRS posted the above mail to places such as ccTLD
community mailing list and JPRS web site
•
June 19, 2003 (PST)
– JPRS sent a mail to ICANN to expressing its commitment to
satisfy the guidelines
– ICANN authorized JPRS to start IDN registration
•
June 20, 2003 (PST)
– ICANN fixed the guidelines and posted it on its web-site
•
July 10, 2003
– JPRS will launch RFC-compliant Japanese Domain Name
registration service
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