Future of the Internet | Media Briefing from Bangkok, Thailand [19 August 2015]

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
1 2 3
4 5
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

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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•  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 - 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

ලං
කා

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.

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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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