Slides used at a media briefing to discuss "The Future of the Internet" in Bangkok, Thailand on 19 August. ICANN and local IT leaders discussed the continued development of the Internet's Domain Name System and Internet growth in the Asia Pacific region, how the region can increase Internet penetration and leverage the Internet more innovatively.

1. Media Briefing:
The Future of the Internet
Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit Hotel | 19 August 2015

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Introduction to
Speakers
Introduction to
ICANN
The Future of the
Internet: What Lies
Ahead for the Asia
Pacific
A Multilingual
Internet: What It
Takes to Get There
Discussion and Q&A
1 2 3
4 5
Agenda

3. Introduction to ICANN
Jia-Rong Low, Sr. Director, Asia | 19 August 2015

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What does ICANN do?
• IP address
(192.0.32.7)
(2607:f0d0:1002:51::4)
• Domain Names
.com .org .net;
.my .sg .cn .in .bd;
.संगठन , .游戏, .‫شبكة‬

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The Internet Architecture

6. The Future of the Internet
Rinalia Abdul Rahim, ICANN Board | 19 August 2015

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Where are we now?
• 3 billion Internet
users in the world
Source:
www.internetworldstats.com;
Euromonitor
• Asia Internet
penetration still
low
• Asia - majority of next billion people coming online

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The Future of the Internet
• Facilitate inclusion
• Use the Internet innovatively

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Paving the way at the “Logical Layer”

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New gTLD Programme – High Potential for Asia
• While awareness still low, Asians more likely to visit new
gTLD sites in future
Source:
ICANN
Global
Consumer
Survey,
Nielson

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Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs)
• IDNs enable
opportunities for local
communities to come
online
• Non-Latin based
characters

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IDNs in India

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IDNs - Challenges
• Lack awareness
• Lack local content
• Need for community
leadership to pave the way
for IDNs

14. A Multilingual Internet
Sarmad Hussain, Sr. Manager, IDN Programme

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ASCII Domain Name Label
www.cafe.com
Second Level
Domain
Top Level
Domain (TLD)
Third Level
Domain
Top Level Domains (TLDs) Domain Stakeholders
¤ ICANN
¤ Registry
¤ Registrar
¤ Reseller
¤ Registrant
¤ End-User
Top Level Domains (TLDs)
¤ Country Code TLDs (ccTLDs)
¤ .sg, .cn, .kh, .la, .mm, .th, .ca, …
¤ Two letter [a..z] codes, reserved for countries and
territories by ISO 3166 standard
¤ Generic TLDs (gTLDs)
¤ .com, .org, .net, .edu, … - organizations
¤ New gTLDs – 1930 applications in 2012

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ASCII Domain Name Label
www.cafe.com
Second Level
Domain
Top Level
Domain (TLD)
Third Level
Domain
Forming ASCII Labels
Use LDH
• Letters [a-z]
• Digits [0-9]
• Hyphen (LDH)
Label length = 63
Other constraints (e.g. on hyphen)
Forming ASCII Labels
Use only Letters
• Letters [a-z]
Label length = 63

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Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) Labels
ตัวอย่าง‫۔‬ไทย
IDN Second
Level
Domain
IDN Top
Level
Domain
Syntax of IDN Labels
Valid U-Label: Unicode code
points as constrained by
IDNA2008
Valid A-Label - “xn--”
followed by punycode of U-
Label of length 59
Syntax of IDN Labels
Valid U-Label, further constrained
by the “letter” principle for TLDs
Valid A-Label
বাংলা
Бел
‫ﻉعﺭرﺏب‬
հայ
中国
!ర#
한국
ලං
කා

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20. Sharing by Thai Label
Generation Panel Chair
Wanawit Ahkuputra, Dy CEO, ETDA | 19 August 2015

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Why do we need the Thai Label Generation Rules? (1/2)
§ Royal Thai Government has announced that Thailand will
transform itself to digital economy by 2017 through
enhancing five pillars-hard, soft, service infrastructures,
digital economy promotion, and digital society.
§ Currently, only 25% of Thai people uses the Internet in
daily life; therefore, we need to increase number of
Internet user to reduce digital divide between those who
are able to access and those who are not.
§ The economic growth could be benefited once people use
the Internet as a tool for e- transactions.

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Why do we need the Thai Label Generation Rules? (2/2)
§ ETDA facilitates the development and enhancement of soft
infrastructure to create enabling environment for e-
transactions.
§ The goal of Thai label generation rules workshop is
empowering Thai people who are not familiar with English
language to be able to access the Internet like others do.
§ ETDA will convene the Thai LGR workshop for the next two
days along with all stakeholders who are experts.
§ The final result is the LGR proposal which will be submitted to
ICANN.

23. Discussion and Q&A

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Summary
§ New gTLDs
§ Internet names are identities for business, communities, and
brands
§ Increasing Internet penetration - need for more domain names
§ Asia to leverage on opportunity
§ Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs)
§ Paving the way to a truly multi-lingual Internet
§ Community needs to be involved and take the lead
§ Other implications
§ The way we use the Internet
§ Interoperability issues (Universal Acceptance)
§ Multi-stakeholder model of Internet Governance

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