Lao Internationalized Domain Names to be developed

18/02/2016 17:29
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KPL (KPL)The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) jointly organized “The Workshop on the Development of Lao Internationalized Domain Names for the Root Zone”.

By Phetsamone

(KPL)The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) jointly organized “The Workshop on the Development of Lao Internationalized Domain Names for the Root Zone”.

The workshop was held on 18th February 2016 at the Don Chan Plaza Hotel in Vientiane Capital and was attended by 80 participants from industry, academia, media and government.  

The workshop focused on getting community feedback for the development of the Lao standard for validating top level domain names.

This standard will promote the use of Lao language in the domain name system and the internet, and support future application of Laos top level domain names (.la) in the Lao language.

ICANN started the Internationalized Top Level Domain Names program in 2009, which aims to allow native speakers to use domain names in their own language.

In Laos, the amount of internet use has grown rapidly from 5 percent in 2010 to 21 per cent in 2015, according to the Acting Director of the Planning and Cooperation Department, Mr Phoukong Chithublok.

“Most Lao people are not able to read or speak English very well which makes researching information on internet difficult and that is why these steps have been taken to have the Lao language in top level domain names,” said Mr Phoukong.

Currently, over 3.2 billion people use the internet in the world and 37 countries can use their own language for top level domain names according to Mr Phoukong.

ICANN intends to support the Lao language in top level domain names. Therefore, ICANN is collaborating with the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPT) to define the standard for Lao script label generation rules for the root zone.  The MPT has formed a panel of experts on the Lao language and technology to undertake this work. The Lao panel consists of 14 members from the government, academia and media.
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