Very interesting process. So can you provide about this evaluation a french version for frenchspoken in africa area ?<br>It should aallow me to dispatch quickly this information in local, national , sub regional level.<br>
<br>Baudouin<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/10/10, Anne-Rachel Inné <<a href="mailto:annerachel@gmail.com">annerachel@gmail.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<h2 style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 0px;">On Its Way: One of the Biggest Changes to the Internet</h2>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: small;">Internet users have key role in testing the operation of example.test in 11 languages</p>
<p style="margin: 15px 0px 0px;">9 October 2007</p>
<p> <strong> MARINA DEL REY, Calif.</strong>: The Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will launch an evaluation of
Internationalized Domain Names next week that will allow Internet users
to test top-level domains in 11 languages. </p>
<p> "This evaluation represents ICANN's most important step so far
towards the full implementation of Internationalized Domain Names. This
will be one of the biggest changes to the Internet since it was
created," said Dr Paul Twomey, ICANN's President and CEO. "ICANN needs
the assistance of users and application developers to make this
evaluation a success. When the evaluation pages come online next week,
we need everyone to get in there and see how the addresses display and
see how links to IDNs work in their programs. In short, we need them to
get in and push it to its limits." </p>
<p> The evaluation is made possible by today's insertion into the root
of the 11 versions of .test, which means they are alongside other
top-level domains like .net, .com, .info, .uk, and .de at the core of
the Internet.</p>
<p> Next Monday, 15 October 2007, Internet users around the globe will
be able to access wiki pages with the domain name example.test in 11
test languages — Arabic, Persian, Chinese (simplified and traditional),
Russian, Hindi, Greek, Korean, Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil. </p>
<p> The wikis will allow Internet users to establish their own subpages
with their own names in their own language. The evaluation is being
done in the 11 languages of the Internet communities that have shown
the most interest in moving IDNs from concept to reality. </p>
<p>The full introduction of IDNs will mean that people can write the
whole of a domain name in the characters used to write their own
language. Presently you can only use these characters before the dot,
so .com, .net, .org and the like can only be written in characters from
basic Latin. IDNs will change this so that literally tens of thousands
of characters will be available to the world. </p>
<p>"Right now only the ASCII characters a through z are available for
use in top level labels — the part of the address after the dot," Dr
Twomey added. "Users will be able to have their name in their language
for their Internet when full IDN implementation makes available tens of
thousands of characters from the languages of world." </p>
<p> More information on the IDN program is available at: <a href="http://www.icann.org/topics/idn/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://icann.org/topics/idn/</a></p>
<p> Links to the wikis will be available on ICANN's website starting 15 October 2007. </p>
<p><strong> About ICANN: </strong></p>
<p> ICANN is responsible for the global coordination of the Internet's
system of unique identifiers like domain names (like .org, .museum and
country codes like .uk) and the addresses used in a variety of Internet
protocols that help computers reach each other over the Internet.
Careful management of these resources is vital to the Internet's
operation, so ICANN's global stakeholders meet regularly to develop
policies that ensure the Internet's ongoing security and stability.
ICANN is an internationally organized, public benefit non-profit
company. For more information please visit: <a href="http://www.icann.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.icann.org</a>. </p>
<p><strong>Media Contacts: </strong></p>
<p>Jason Keenan <br>
Media Adviser, ICANN (USA) <br>
Ph: +1 310 382 4004 <br>
E: <a href="mailto:jason.keenan@icann.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jason.keenan@icann.org </a></p>
<p>International: Andrew Robertson <br>
Edelman (London) <br>
Ph: +44 7921 588 770 <br>
E: <a href="mailto:andrew.robertson@edelman.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">andrew.robertson@edelman.com</a> </p>
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