Media Briefing: The Future of the Internet Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit Hotel | 19 August 2015
Feb 23, 2017
Media Briefing: The Future of the Internet Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit Hotel | 19 August 2015
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Introduction to Speakers
Introduction to ICANN
The Future of the Internet: What Lies Ahead for the Asia
Pacific
A Multilingual Internet: What It
Takes to Get There
Discussion and Q&A
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Agenda
Introduction to ICANN
Jia-Rong Low, Sr. Director, Asia | 19 August 2015
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What does ICANN do?
• IP address (192.0.32.7) (2607:f0d0:1002:51::4)
• Domain Names .com .org .net; .my .sg .cn .in .bd; .संगठन , .游戏, .شبكة
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The Internet Architecture
The Future of the Internet
Rinalia Abdul Rahim, ICANN Board | 19 August 2015
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Where are we now?
• 3 billion Internet users in the world
Source: www.internetworldstats.com; Euromonitor
• Asia Internet penetration still low
• Asia - majority of next billion people coming online
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The Future of the Internet
• Facilitate inclusion • Use the Internet innovatively
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Paving the way at the “Logical Layer”
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New gTLD Programme – High Potential for Asia • While awareness still low, Asians more likely to visit new
gTLD sites in future
Source: ICANN Global Consumer Survey, Nielson
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Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs)
• IDNs enable opportunities for local communities to come online
• Non-Latin based characters
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IDNs in India
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IDNs - Challenges
• Lack awareness • Lack local content • Need for community
leadership to pave the way for IDNs
A Multilingual Internet
Sarmad Hussain, Sr. Manager, IDN Programme
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ASCII Domain Name Label
www.cafe.com
Second Level Domain
Top Level Domain (TLD)
Third Level Domain
Top Level Domains (TLDs) Domain Stakeholders
¤ ICANN
¤ Registry
¤ Registrar
¤ Reseller
¤ Registrant
¤ End-User
Top Level Domains (TLDs)
¤ Country Code TLDs (ccTLDs) ¤ .sg, .cn, .kh, .la, .mm, .th, .ca, …
¤ Two letter [a..z] codes, reserved for countries and territories by ISO 3166 standard
¤ Generic TLDs (gTLDs) ¤ .com, .org, .net, .edu, … - organizations
¤ New gTLDs – 1930 applications in 2012
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ASCII Domain Name Label
www.cafe.com
Second Level Domain
Top Level Domain (TLD)
Third Level Domain
Forming ASCII Labels Use LDH • Letters [a-z] • Digits [0-9] • Hyphen (LDH) Label length = 63 Other constraints (e.g. on hyphen)
Forming ASCII Labels Use only Letters • Letters [a-z] Label length = 63
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Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) Labels
ตัวอย่าง۔ไทย
IDN Second Level
Domain
IDN Top Level
Domain
Syntax of IDN Labels Valid U-Label: Unicode code points as constrained by IDNA2008 Valid A-Label - “xn--” followed by punycode of U-Label of length 59
Syntax of IDN Labels Valid U-Label, further constrained by the “letter” principle for TLDs Valid A-Label
বাংলা Бел ععرربب հայ 中国 !ర# 한국 ලංකා
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Sharing by Thai Label Generation Panel Chair Wanawit Ahkuputra, Dy CEO, ETDA | 19 August 2015
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Why do we need the Thai Label Generation Rules? (1/2)
§ Royal Thai Government has announced that Thailand will transform itself to digital economy by 2017 through enhancing five pillars-hard, soft, service infrastructures, digital economy promotion, and digital society.
§ Currently, only 25% of Thai people uses the Internet in daily life; therefore, we need to increase number of Internet user to reduce digital divide between those who are able to access and those who are not.
§ The economic growth could be benefited once people use the Internet as a tool for e- transactions.
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Why do we need the Thai Label Generation Rules? (2/2)
§ ETDA facilitates the development and enhancement of soft infrastructure to create enabling environment for e-transactions.
§ The goal of Thai label generation rules workshop is empowering Thai people who are not familiar with English language to be able to access the Internet like others do.
§ ETDA will convene the Thai LGR workshop for the next two days along with all stakeholders who are experts.
§ The final result is the LGR proposal which will be submitted to ICANN.
Discussion and Q&A
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Summary
§ New gTLDs § Internet names are identities for business, communities, and
brands § Increasing Internet penetration - need for more domain names § Asia to leverage on opportunity
§ Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs)
§ Paving the way to a truly multi-lingual Internet § Community needs to be involved and take the lead
§ Other implications § The way we use the Internet § Interoperability issues (Universal Acceptance)
§ Multi-stakeholder model of Internet Governance
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