african language related work preparation

[JFC Morfin]

There is a MAAYA (http://maaya.org) face to face collaborative work 
planed for this early November at international academic level on 
malicious uses of Internationalized Domain Name and ccTLDs under 
African domains. The target would be to investigate, propose and 
report on the related security problems. Marcel Diki-Kidiri, the 
African linguist/terminologist in charge of the preparation of the 
workshop charter is not an engineer and would like to know how to 
best describe what ICANN, IETF and Draft authors could expect from 
them. In particular, he wishes to know if there are African specific 
issues which could be of interest to this WG and Fast Track and 
authors (in particular in the Unicode and IANA ccTLD tables areas).

I also send him a reminder in French of the involved architectural, 
technical, multilinguistical, terminological issues; but it would  be 
good if he could get authorized reviews and directly relate with 
concerned IETF/ICANN Members.

However he has no time to dig into all this background information; I 
pointed him towards the WG-IDNABIS page :
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/idnabis-charter.html
with the current working Drafts:
<http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idnabis-tables-02.txt>The 
Unicode Codepoints and IDNA
<http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idnabis-rationale-03.txt>Internationalized 
Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): Definitions, Background and Rationale
<http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idnabis-protocol-05.txt>Internationalized 
Domain Names in Applications (IDNA): Protocol
<http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idnabis-bidi-02.txt>An 
updated IDNA criterion for right-to-left scripts

Unicode: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/ for Unicode

Existing RFC:
- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3454.txt Preparation of 
Internationalized Strings ("string-prep")
- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3490.txt  Internationalizing Domain 
Names in Applications
- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3491.txt Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile 
for Internationalized Domain Names
- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3492.txt Punycode: A Bootstring encoding 
of Unicode for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications
- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3743.txt Joint Engineering Team (JET) 
Guidelines for IDN Registration and Administration for Chinese, 
Japanese, and Korean
- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4185.txt National and Local Characters 
for DNS Top Level Domain (TLD) Names
- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4690.txt Review and Recommendations for 
Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)

IANA/ICANN:
- http://iana.org/domains/idn-tables/
- http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/
- http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/spoofing.htm

Thank you for your help to African languages, cultural support and ccTLDs.
jfc

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