On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (Please note that this is a rather lengthy message copied to > various lists, as various parts of it are of interest to > different communities. Please edit the list of recipients, > and the body in any follow-ups.) > > Hello all, > Firstly, a formal meeting announcement: > Event: ILUG-Delhi meeting > Date: Fri., May 9th > Time: 6.30pm > Agenda: o Brainstorming for working with NIXI. Please > see details below. > Participants: All on this list. > Venue: BB/3G, DDA flats, Munirka. > Contact: Me (9868527992) > > We had an interesting meeting today with some people from > NIXI, the National Internet Exchange of India, which is now > set up as a not-for-profit company. Briefly, NIXI wishes to > play the role of a bridge between industry, government, and > the FOSS community, and has certain advantages over normal > government agencies when it comes to funding projects in this > area. > > Here are some ideas mooted from their side. Please note > that these are open to people from anywhere in India, and > they would like to see country-wide participation: > 1. Preparing for roll-out of internationalised top-level > domain names, i.e., web URLs entirely in Indian languages. > ICANN should be approving this in some 6 months time, so > NIXI wants people to participate in an experimental setup > on a private (to India) network which can go public on the > Internet on ICANN approval. This work would include the > preparation of a write-up on potential issues involving > canonical representations for Unicode names, phishing and > other security loopholes, etc. Sarai might be hosting an > informal seminar to introduce this topic, in a week or > two. Finally it`s coming, I remember giving a talk on ILUGD april 2007 meet on Inernaionalized domains, Great news here some snippets out of that http://gauravmishra.info/2007/04/25/multilingual-domains/ http://gauravmishra.info/2007/04/27/theory-behind-multilingual-domains-and-security-issues/ Looking fwd to some interesting details > > -- > Thanks and Regards > Gaurav Mishra > > Linux User #348873 > http://gauravmishra.info/blog > http://www.hostcurry.com --> We are back > "When i can run , i will run , When i can walk , i will walk, When i can > crawl , i will crawl. But i will not stop moving forward" _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
