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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