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MLTF meeting before IGF

2006-10-02 19:40:55
The MLTF project (Multilingual Internet Technical Forum) was initiated two years ago. It was delayed by the debate regarding the IANA Language Subtags and Extensions Registries. During that time, meetings were held in Versailles in order to guide an interoperability and innovation protection strategy. Today, the RFC 4646 has been published which matches our requirements and should support the IETF internationalization plane (however, its implementation still calls for attention).

The MLTF core can now resume its endeavour towards the standardisation, development, documentation, testing, and industrial deployment assistance that was called for by the IGF for the multilingualisation of the Internet and the entire digital ecosystem. It was introduced at the ITU/UNESCO joint meeting in Geneva, and discussed at the ISOC EGENI meeting in Paris. It is one of the substantive contributions to the Athens IGF meeting <http://intgovforum.org/Substantive_1st_IGF/e-mdrs-intro.pdf>http://intgovforum.org/Substantive_1st_IGF/e-mdrs-intro.pdf.

An MLTF concertation meeting will be held in Versailles on 5 October 2006 and pursued in Athens (before the 1 November 2006 session). To attend the first meeting at the invitation of the Versailles Chamber of Commerce you must be registered for security reasons. A preparatory mailing list has been set-up that you can join by sending a mail to info(_at_)mltf(_dot_)org(_dot_) You will find information about this meeting at <http://mltf.org/>http://mltf.org. Some of the key international technical partners of the Multilingual Internet governance will attend or will be represented.

Several IETF Drafts for information will be discussed concerning the languages e-empowerment path, the multilingualisation of the Internet, a united model for the multilingual, multitechnology digital ecosystem, the place of the Internet in this model, the relations with its SSDOs and the interest of the proposition of an IETF WG-Multilingualisation for the IETF techhnology aspects. The organisation of the MLTF, the preparation of a Spring 2007 meeting, and the economic model, analysis, development, testing, ontology constitution, gathering, and maintenance, deployment of a multilingual distributed referential system (MDRS) are all on the agenda.

The priority is to permit ISO 11179 conformant crosswalk interoperability with the IANA registries - once they have stabilised - as well as with the other Language codes, standards, and services. This should be achieved through the MDRS langroot.

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