Cyrillic Languages Internet Names Consortium (CyrLINC) aims to coordinate efforts to develop Multilingual Internet name system and applications within cyrillic languages countries and territories.
Various local, regional, and global efforts towards the development of internationalized domain names (IDN) have existed since the late 1990s. Recently, IDN went through the standardization process at IETF which approved publication of four proposed standards (RFC3454, RFC3490, RFC3491, RFC3492).
The multilingual domain names system allows to use the natural words and phrases for Internet names with allowance of language features and cultural traditions of each people.
Cyrillics, as a character set is used for a writing on Russian, Byelorussian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Mongolian, Serbian, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Turkmen etc. languages. Many symbols of cyrillics are common for all cyrillics languages, therefore necessity for coordination is obvious.
CyrLINC Charter (English)
CyrLINC Charter (Russian)
IDN Registration and Administration Guideline for Russian, Ukrainian,
Bulgarian and Byelorussian languages:
Multilingual Internet Names Consortium
Russian Language Working Group
IDN Deployment in Russia
(Presentation on APRICOT meeting. Taipei Feb, 2003)
Cyrillic Code Pages UNICODE v3.2
RFC 3454 Preparation of Internationalized Strings ("stringprep")
RFC 3490 Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)
RFC 3491 Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for
Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)
RFC 3492 Punycode: A Bootstring encoding of Unicode for
Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)
MINC press-release
Contact: info@cyrlinc.org
Phone/Fax: +7.8462788201