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Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın) - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) met in Sao Paolo this week and made progress on a project to expand domain names to more languages and alphabets.
ICANN had a "very

very busy and very productive week

" ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf said during a press conference he led Friday with Chief Executive Officer and President Paul Twomey. The group made progress on technical issues related to Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs).
The IDN project is meant to revamp the DNS (Domain Name System) so that it supports domain names from different languages and alphabets

such as Arabic and Chinese

that can't be rendered in the ASCII character set.
The nonprofit group that oversees Internet governance also signed what its officials call a "historic agreement" with 22 Internet user groups in Latin America and Caribbean. The Latin America-Caribbean Regional At-Large Organization

or RALO

has the goal of providing individual user input to ICANN. This is the first RALO agreement ICANN has reached.
ICANN further announced that it approved registry agreements for the .biz

.info and .org domains

with a restriction that traffic data cannot be used to disclose domain name registrant

end-user information or other personal data. Traffic data can be used to determine problems with the Internet

including points of failure

attacks on networks

compromised networks and the like. The agreements also put a 10 percent cap on price increases charged by registry operators.
ICANN members also agreed to a three-year strategic plan that calls for a focus on "organizational excellence" in operations and policy development

as well as an increase in international participation. Top priorities for action in the plan include improvement and automation of the ICANN-controlled Internet Assigned Names Authority (IANA)

which manages master domain lists; deployment of the IDNs as top-level domains; and implementing best practices for "accountability

transparency and governance."
Also at the meeting

ICANN signed a contract with DotAsia Organisation Ltd.

in Hong Kong

to establish a .asia top-level domain. Companies and organizations in Asia looking beyond their local markets

as well as multinationals with subsidiaries that are based in one country but serve all of Asia

would benefit from the regional domain name

the company said. Working with ICANN

DotAsia plans to gradually introduce IDN services in the future.
The text of resolutions adopted in Sao Paulo

along with IDN laboratory testing design plans

agreements and matters for which ICANN is seeking public comment can be found at
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