02.06.2015Regtime.net1 IDN deployment in Russia Sergey Charikov CEO of Regtime.net CEO of RLNIC MINC Board Member.

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IDN deployment in Russia

Sergey Charikov

CEO of Regtime.net

CEO of RLNIC

MINC Board Member                                                                       

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IntroductionRussian is the primary language of the Russian nation. It is also widely used in

many other countries.

It is a native or second language for 232.5 million people in Russia, 11 countries of CIS – such as Ukraine, Belarussia, Kazakhstan, etc and Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.

 Russian is one of official and working languages of UN and UNESCO. Besides

being the State language of the Russian Federation since 1991, it is a language of inter-ethnic and international dialogue. As such, Russian is considered a global language.

 On November 27, 2002 the Council of the Russian Federation approved

amendments in the law "About languages of the peoples of Russian Federation “ to deal with the Cyrillic characters used in the different parts of the Federation.

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Script of the Russian Language

Based on Cyrillic Russian Cyrillic has 33 characters

in the Russian alphabet. Slight difference from Cyrillic used

by other languages Cyrillic script was formalized by St

Cyrillic in the 9th Century A.D. and subsequently by St Clement in Medieval times

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Unicode 3.2 Cyrillic Fonts

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IDN Deployment history

May 22, 2001 first Cyrillic language domains registration launched

Three Cyrillic's TLDs which are analogs of .com .net and .org

http://www.i-dns.net/newsroom/news/I-RU010312-01.html.en

November 2001 - Russian Language working group of MINC created.

Members of RLWG are famous persons of a linguistics science, internet business and government structures. http://www.minc.org/WG/russian/charter1.2.html

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Charter of the RLWG

The Russian Language Working Group (RLWG) aims to co-ordinate efforts

to develop Russian Internet name system and applications,

providing users with the capability of:

- using Russian language and its standard Cyrillic character sets to write domain or keyword names and navigate the Internet;

- receive and send email using a Russian language email address;

- utilize other global or local network resources and resource identifiers in Russian language, such as ftp, gopher and server names.

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Where to register IDN in RussiaThere are two main websites in Russia offer to register Cyrillic domains –

www.regtime.net and www.webnames.ru  

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In total some thousands of Cyrillic domains have been registered, including the Cyrillic domains president.org and kremlin.org which

are registered under the initiative of the Russian President’s Administration. For almost a year, the former domain name, has been

resolving to Russian President Putin’s personal homepage

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Interoperability Issues Just like Latin script, many languages use

Cyrillic, including Russian Need coordination More than 50 European and Asian

languages eg. Russian, Bulgarian, Azeri, Belarusian, Croatian Cyrillic (bosancica), Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian Cyrillic, Montenegrin Cyrillic, Serbian, Tatar, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Others such as Abaza, Abkhasian, Adyghe, Altai, Avar, Azerbaijani (Azeri), Bashkir, Buriat, Chechen, Chuckchi, Chuvash, Crimean Turkish, Dargwa, Dolgan, Dungan, Gagauz, Ingush, Judeo-Tat, Kabardian, Kalmyk-Oirat, Karachay-Balkar, Karaim, Karakalpak, Khakas, Khanty, Kildin Sámi, Kirghiz (Kyrgyz), Kumyk, Kurmanji, Lak, Kezgi, Mari, Moldavian, Nenets, Nogai, Old-Ukranian, Osetin, Slavonic, Tabassaran, Tajikik, Turkmen, Tuvin, Uyghur, Yakut and other minority languages of Russia

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Classification

Languages that use Cyrillic exclusively – Russian, Bulgarian

Languages that use Cyrillic in addition to the native script – e.g. Mongolian

Languages that use Cyrillic and other scripts – e.g. Azeri (Latin and Cyrillic) Croatian Glagolitic, Cyrillic and Latin

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Answer to the Challenge of MINC Interoperability Testing

Now Regtime.net and RLWG with support of the Russian Chamber of Commerce, prominent government politicians and influential scientists have created Russian Language Network Information Center (RLNIC) and Cyrillic Languages Internet Names Consortium (CLINC).

These entities, with technology licensed from I-DNS.net, are in the process of launching inter-operability IDN testing within Russia and CIS countries.

The RLWG has partnered with the RLNIC, which acts as the registry operator. The role of the RLWG has been to ensure that language and policy issues relating to the Russian script as used in Russia will be adequately adhered to by all parties.

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For more information

http://www.regtime.net http://www.minc.org http://www.minc.org/WG/cyrillic/ http://www.minc.org/WG/russian/ Sergey Charikov

<[email protected]>