2004 June 30
CNNIC today held a commendation meeting to praise its IETF RFC3743 project team members for their contribution.
In April 2004, IETF formally issued RFC 3743 with the tile of “Joint Engineering Team (JET) Guidelines for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) Registration and Administration for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean”. As one of the key members of JET, Chinese project team had made a great deal of contribution. RFC 3743 focused on resolving the equivalent problem of different forms (traditional/simplified/variant) of Chinese characters when using as IDN identifiers, and provided a set of consummate technical solutions. RFC3743 not only worked out the special Chinese linguistic problems, maintaining the interests of domain name registrants, but also realized the interoperability between Chinese domain name system and the current DNS, meeting with international technical criteria completely.
On the meeting, Dr. Yan Baoping, the director general of Computer Network Information Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) forwarded the congratulation letter regarding RFC 3743 on behalf of Mr. Jiang Mianheng, the vise president of CAS. She also affirmed CNNIC’s efforts on pushing forward the IDN project. Mr. Mao Wei, the director of CNNIC then introduced the whole process of drafting RFC 3743 and its significant meaning. During the meeting, the key members of RFC3743 project team was commended, including Professor Qian Hualin, Dr. Li Xiaodong and some other CNNIC engineers.
Addresses and Comments by Foreign Friends:
Fred Baker, Chair of IETF
The development of Unicode-based Domain Names has been a difficult and trying experience taking a period of years. It has been especially difficult for Asian peoples who use derivatives of the Han character set, as this writing system is vastly different from the roman-like character sets used in other parts of the Internet. I congratulate the participants in JET on their very successful collaboration, making a system that will extend the benefits of the Domain Name System to their constituencies.
Paul Twomey, President and CEO of ICANN
He said during an interview in Vancouver: “Chinese, Korean and Japanese are being introduced into the domain naming system previously dominated by anglicized Web addresses. With tricky linguistic problems now worked out, Chinese, Korean and Japanese domain names are increasingly coming into use.”
He also noted on the annual meeting of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority:“ These languages and character sets could soon be followed by the likes of Arabic and Cyrillic. There are now calls to do the same for Arabic and Cyrillic and the languages of Southeast Asia.”
(SOURCE: The Vancouver Sun, CanWest Interactive, a division of CanWest Global Communications Corp.)
