Name: draft-farah-adntf-adns-guidelines-00
Title: Guidelines for an Arabic Domain Name System
State: Active
Authors: Mansour Farah
Group: Individual Submissions (none)
Date: 2004-08-25
There have been several attempts aimed at developing an Arabic Domain Name
System using Arabic characters in an Arabic-language coherent fashion. To
satisfy this demand, an entire environment needs to be developed in order
to take into account technology standardization, policy and administrative
arrangements, as well as new applications. In the beginning of the second
quarter of 2003, an Arabic Domain Name Task Force (ADNTF) was formed under
the auspices of United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western
Asia (ESCWA), and the guidance of Multilingual Internet Names Consortium
(MINC); one of its main objectives was to help define standards for ADNS
through a Request For Comments (RFC) document. This document resolves many
technical and linguistic issues, including the adoption of the client-side
DNS-based approach to name resolution; syntax of the proposed Arabic Domain
Names together with the character set and many Arabic language-specific
issues were clearly resolved. This Internet-Draft proposes guidelines that
are compatible with the Internet Consortium for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as far as Domain
Names System (DNS) and Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) standards are
concerned. Technical, management, operational, and language-specific issues
are discussed and recommendations are made.
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