At-Large Policy: ICANN’s Goal for a Multilingual Internet through IDNs
05:15 - 06:30 UTC on Monday, 19 September
Conference Hall 2 (ALAC)
13:15 MYT (UTC+8), 19 September 2022
05:15 UTC, 19 September 2022
ID# 13317
Session Details
For more than 2 decades, ICANN together with the technical community and volunteers around the world, have been at the forefront of efforts to support an inclusive and multilingual Internet by internationalizing the Domain Name System (DNS). Such efforts, since 2003, have enabled end users to navigate the Internet by using the DNS in selected local scripts (written languages) which was not possible before.
In this session, several ICANN community leaders will discuss the direction to be taken by ICANN in attempting to improve the uptake of IDNs, while remaining cognizant of technical, and operational challenges, the need to adhere to relevant international standards and protocols (such as the IDNA2008 standard), community-developed rules to determine the validity of IDN from a language/script perspective (i.e the Root Zone - Label Generation Rules), as well as individual end user perceptions on the availability and usability of IDNs. Agenda: https://community.icann.org/x/LgQVD
Session Leader: Heidi Ullrich
Staff Facilitator: Gisella Gruber
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