Re: [ssac-gnso-irdwg] Draft: Questions for ICANN IDN staff - Tina Dam - from the WhoIs IRD WG

[James M Galvin <jgalvin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Bob, these questions look good to me.

Jim



-- On January 25, 2011 1:12:14 AM -0800 "Robert C. Hutchinson" 
<rchutch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote regarding [ssac-gnso-irdwg] Draft: Questions 
for ICANN IDN staff - Tina Dam - from the WhoIs IRD WG --
> Hello WhoIs IRD WG,
>
> Here is my suggested questions for discussion between the Whois IRD
> WG and ICANN IDN Staff / Tina Dam.
>
> Reply with your clarifications and suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob Hutchinson
>
>
>
>
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> The WhoIs IRD WG is requesting expertise/assistance from the IDN
> team.
>
> The WhoIs IRD WG is considering recommending that WhoIs
> Internationalized Domain name registrant data [name and address] for
> owner and contact be tagged with language.   Furthermore, it would
> be advantageous to constrain the content of language tagged fields to
> only the legitimate characters of the tagged language.   Ideally we
> would like to locate existing UTF-8 language tables and reference
> them, rather than creating "ICANN WHOIS language tables".
>
>
>
> Based on reviewing the  IDN ccTLD Fast-Track Workshop slides, 
> http://sel.icann.org/node/6740/,  the IDN team addressed similar
> issues surrounding the use of scripts, languages and character sets.
>
> Apparently the IDN team decided that each TLD/registry would define
> the language character sets acceptable for 2nd-level domain names. 
> Those files are stored at IANA: 
> http://www.iana.org/domains/idn-tables/  and reference linked
> character code pages.  This system provides the flexibility for each
> TLD to define each language, but has the disadvantage [for example]
> of defining the Swedish character set three different ways.
>
>
>
> We would like to invite members of the IDN team to discuss the
> following questions with the Whois IRD WG:
>
> 1) Given the current state of IDN language definitions – are there
> ways/suggestions that the existing IANA-IDN language definitions
> could be leveraged to help with WhoIs  IRD?
>
> 2) Did the IDN team explore or select a suitable established
> “standard” language tags/code? Like ISO 639-3  
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes  for
>  designating which language a domain name [TLD or second-level] is
> encoded in?
>
> 3)  Are there other [ISO{8859/2022}/HTML?] language code page
> standards which are UTF-8 based, which could be used/leveraged to
> easily define WhoIs IRD language character sets?
>
> 4) Help?  Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.