2002.10.21
                                                           Kilnam Chon
Internationalization(i18n) of the Internet
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1. Introduction

The Internet started in USA for US research community.  Thus, the Internet
support ASCII, i.e., 7-bit code.  In order to support other characters,
we need 8 bits, 16 bits, or 32 bits(Unicode).
In addition to the code, we need to look into

 - Content(text)
 - Domain Name System(DNS)
 - others

2. Domain Name System(DNS)

Domain Name System is one of the infrastructure of the Internet, and it is
not trivial to support non-ASCII, and there are 2 ways to support the non-ASCII;

 - Native code(Internationalized Domain Name[IDN])
 - ASCII encoding(Internationalized Domain Name in Application[IDNA])

3. Multilingual Names

 - Domain Name
 - Lookup(Identifier, Keyword)
 - Search
 - Directory

4. Name Spaces

4.1 ASCII(.kr,....)

     10 gTLDs(~flat); .com,....
    245 ccTLDs(flat vs hierarchical)

    .kr
      gSLDs(ac, co, go, or, re; kg, es, ms, hs, sc)
      14 regionSLDs

4.2 Native Language

4.3 one domain name per person?

5. References

 - Naming & Namespace workshops, 2001, 2002
 - IETF
   idn WG internet drafts