On May 12, the birthday of the national Cyrillic domain .РФ, Andrey Vorobyev, Director of the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ, gave an open lecture for teachers and students of the Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU). He spoke about the technological aspects of the Universal Acceptance of domain names and e-mail addresses written in national alphabets.
Universal Acceptance is the state when all Internet-enabled applications, devices, and systems correctly and uniformly accept, validate, store, process, and display all valid domain names and email addresses. Andrey Vorobyev spoke in detail about what work is currently being done to introduce universal acceptance in Russia and in the world, and how the Coordinating Center participates in this activity with its Поддерживаю.РФ project. So, for the second time, a study was conducted of socially significant Internet resources in the Russian Federation for readiness for universal acceptance, a report on this study was published on the Coordination Center’s website.
Director of the Coordination Center also noted that the implementation of Universal Acceptance today is going on at all levels - both at the state level, when the requirement to support all valid domains and email addresses becomes mandatory for state electronic services and is included in contract and tender documents for the development of software for government needs, and at the level of professional communities and large developers, when the technological aspects of Universal Acceptance are at the forefront.
Andrey Vorobyev, together with the students, also discussed issues related to the architecture of Internet governance, sanctions risks for the IT industry and compliance with international law, preserving linguistic diversity on the Internet and its impact on the modern Russian language.
The next meeting at MSLU is going to be held on May 24 and will be timed to coincide with the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture.
