ICANN Comment on NSI Registry Multilingual Domain Name Testbed

(25 August 2000) Yesterday, NSI Registry announced its plans to open a testbed for ICANN-accredited registrars to register domain names in non-English language character sets in .com, .net, and .org.

ICANN recognizes that it is important that the Internet evolve to be more accessible to those who do not use English-language character sets. At the same time, the internationalization of the Internet's domain name system must be accomplished through standards that are open, non-proprietary, and fully compatible with the Internet's existing end-to-end model and that preserve globally unique naming in a universally resolvable public name space. ICANN strongly supports the principle stated by the IETF's working group on Internationalized Domain Names:

"A fundamental requirement in this work is to not disturb the current use and operation of the domain name system, and for the DNS to continue to allow any system anywhere to resolve any domain name."

With those goals in mind, ICANN intends to monitor closely the implementation of non-English language character sets by NSI Registry in the .com, .net, and .org top-level domains.


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（2000年8月25日）昨天，NSI注册管理机构宣布其将面向ICANN认证的注册服务商开展试验的计划，以便在.com、.net，以及.org下使用非英语字符来注册域名。

ICANN认为改进互联网络，方便非英语使用者使用是必要的。同时，如果想把互联网络域名系统加以国际化，就必须通过公开、不独占的标准，以及完全与互联网络现行端对端（end-to-end）模式兼容，并且以普遍可以理解的公共名称空间来保留全球特有的命名。ICANN强烈支持互联网络工程工作小组（IETF）针对国际域名所宣示的原则：

"这项工作的基本要求是不扰乱域名系统目前的使用情况与运作，并且允许任何地方的域名系统（DNS）可以继续分辨任何一个域名。"

ICANN将这些目标谨记在心，并且打算密切关注NSI域名注册管理机构在.com、.net，以及.org这些顶级域名下使用非英语字符的情况。