The Jordan capital, Amman, will host in March 31 and April 1, the Founders Meeting of the Arabic Internet Names Consortium and the Seminar on the Arabization of Domain Names, said the organizers in a press release sent to Albawaba.com.
These meetings are held under the-patronage of King Abdullah II and organized by Talal Abu-Ghazaleh International (TAGI) on behalf of the Arabic Working Group of Multilingual Internet Names Consortium (MINC). Representatives of government ministries, governmental and non-governments bodies and diverse business interests from Jordan and other Arabic countries will attend.
AINC is an international organization drawing its membership and soliciting participation and individuals worldwide in an inclusive way. It is founded for the facilitation of the Internationalization of the Internet for all Arabic speaking people of the World, allowing access without linguistic barriers at all levels.
The objective of the AINC is to coordinate efforts to develop and deploy Arabic Domain Names system and application. This non-commercial Coordination includes providing users with the capability of using Arabic and its standard characters set to write domain names in Arabic and navigate the Internet.
Many representatives of government ministries, governments and non-governmental bodies and diverse business interests will be represented.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman of the ICC Commission on "Telecommunications and Information Technologies" and the chairman of AINC Founding Meeting, was quoted in the release as saying that "AINC’S main objective is to Arabize domain names, as the present domain names system accepts only Latin Letters. Arabic will become, later this year, one of the few languages that could be used for registering domain names, together with other international languages. We are expecting that later this year, it will be possible to have and Arabized programs, which will be installed on the computer to allow it to translate the Arabic character to ASCII that will be understandable by the DNS. The Arabic Workgroup of the MINC has already prepared its requirements and it will be implemented by I-DNS and network (gTLDs). Some other companies announced too that they will introduce technologies for the Arabic Domain Names.”
As for the Internet Arabization seminar, which will be held in Hyatt Regency Hotel, Abu-Ghazaleh said that it will be dealing with specialized technical papers presented by experts. After that Amman Declaration will be issued officially announcing the foundation of the Arabic Internet Names Consortium – Albawaba.com
