1. Introduction
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.
2. Objectives
Cyrillic Languages Internet Names Consortium (CyrLINC) aims to coordinate efforts to develop Multilingual Internet name system and applications within cyrillic languages countries and territories.
3. Work Items
To achieve the projected objectives, CyrLINC plans to work on items as follows:
CyrLINC will seek to coordinate with other Language Consortiums and Groups, Multilingual Internet Names Consortium (MINC), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to resolve issues.
4. Schedule
03/2003: first netmeeting to identify Cyrillic Languages TLDs.
5. Participants
There is no limitation on qualification of participants. Entities who would like to join the development and deployment of Cyrillic Internet name system are strongly encouraged to participate.
6. Web Site