Tuesday, 17 April 2012

[pakgrid] Third Workshop on Internationalized Domain Names for Local Content Development Policy for ۔پاکستان IDN ccTLD

 

Aoa,

 

  Dear All,

 

    Third Workshop on Internationalized Domain Names for Local Content Development Policy for ۔پاکستان IDN ccTLD is being conducted at Center for Language Engineering, KICS, UET, Lahore. The event is being hosted in collaboration with Ministry of Information Technology and is endorsed  by IEEE CS, Lahore Section. For participation details please see below and attachments.  

 

Kind  Regards,

 

Jamshaid Iqbal Janjua
General Secretary
 
Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science
University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
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Cell # +92.300.4465200

http://www.kics.edu.pk

 

 

 

 

Third Workshop on

Internationalized Domain Names for Local Content Development

Policy for ۔پاکستان IDN ccTLD

 

20th April, 2012

 

 

NIDU

Ministry of Information Technology

Government of Pakistan

 

Hosted by

 

Center for Language Engineering

Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science

University of Engineering and Technology

Lahore

 

Ministry of IT, Government of Pakistan,  has been working on the development of IDN ccTLD registry for Pakistan. In this context, the application forپاکستان. from the ministry has been approved by ICANN (http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion) and the delegation process is now underway, including the specification of the ccTLD structure, policies and manager.  There is considerable work being done in this area nationally and internationally.  History of the work in the national context is available at http://www.cle.org.pk/IDN/, which includes the first introductory workshop, second workshop for finalizing the IDN ccTLD string and other relevant matters for application and a follow up workshop of language and technology experts to finalize the language table for Pakistani languages.  Additional work continues at ICANN (http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn).   

 

Formation of ۔پاکستان registry will enable Pakistanis to register for domain  names in their own languages, e.g. اردو۔ادارہ۔پاکستان instead of just the ASCII English option which exists today.  Establishing IDN ccTLD will promote development and deployment of content in local languages.

 

This workshop provides public forum to give feedback on policy issues relating to the IDN ccTLD for Pakistan.  For those who are not able to attend in person, an online survey form has also been made available for submitting feedback by 19th April, 2012, at http://www.cle.org.pk/IDN/idn2012/.  The meeting will finalize relevant policy issues, including the following:

 

a.      Domain registration requirements

b.      Registry governance, business and regulatory model

c.       Registry operational policies

 

The response from the public will be collated and presented to MoIT, GoP as recommendations for the policy of ۔پاکستان IDN ccTLD. 

 

Please confirm your participation in the meeting in Lahore by emailing to waqar.azeem@kics.edu.pk

 

Regards,
Sarmad

 

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سرمد حسین

 

Sarmad Hussain

Professor and Head

Center for Language Engineering (www.cle.org.pk)

Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science (www.kics.edu.pk)

University of Engineering and Technology (www.uet.edu.pk)

Lahore, PAKISTAN

 

 

 

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