Dear All,
Please note that on Wednesday, 16
September 2009 at 15:00 UTC you are invited to join a
SSAC Webinar briefing on SAC 037, Display and usage of Internationalized
Registration Data: Support for characters from local languages or scripts.
http://gnso.icann.org/announcement/announcement-09sep09-en.htm
Dave Piscitello, ICANN Senior Security
Technologist, discusses the issues surrounding
internationalized registration data in an upcoming webinar.
Please RSVP gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx NLT Tuesday 15 September 2009 if you would
like to join so that there will be enough lines available.
Call details will follow.
SSAC Briefing: Display and Usage of
Internationalized Registration Data
Webinar provides essential background for understanding global Whois issues
Many Internet applications today support characters
from local languages, alphabets or scripts. This type of
“internationalization” affects how information displays to Internet
users, and how users submit information to applications.
A recently published report on internationalized registration data (SAC037 <http://www.icann.org/en/committees/security/ssac-documents.htm>
) by the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) explains that
standard formats are defined for internationalized domain names (IDNs), but no
standards exist for how contact information and other registration data can be
submitted and displayed using character sets other than ASCII. Can Internet
users continue to use Whois services effectively if data such as contact
information, host names, sponsoring registrar and domain name status are
submitted and displayed only in local languages, or in a random mix of
languages ?
Dave Piscitello, ICANN Senior Security Technologist, discusses the issues
surrounding internationalized registration data in an upcoming webinar. In this
session, Dave will brief you on:
· How the use of characters from local scripts affects
the Internet user experience with respect to domain name registration data
submission, usage, and display.
· Examples of what users may encounter today when
accessing registration data via Whois or via the web
· Issues related to supporting characters from local
scripts in applications that registrars, registries, and other parties provide
for the submission and display of domain names and registration data
· How some ccTLDs collect and display internationalized
registration data today
· Standards that postal services use, so that they can
deliver mail between countries when languages and scripts vary from sender to
recipient
Join us for this essential background information, to be delivered via Adobe
Connect on Wednesday, 16 September, 15:00 UTC (local time conversion chart <http://101science.com/UTCzulu.html>
). Mark your calendar now, then on 16 September, simply participate as our
guest by pointing your browser to http://icann.na3.acrobat.com/ssacwebinar/
.
You’ll come away with knowledge that enables you to make more informed
decisions about international registration data and Whois. We hope you’ll join us!
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://gnso.icann.org