MLTF meeting before IGF

[Jefsey_Morfin <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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
.

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@xxxxxxxxx You
will find information about this meeting at

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.

jfc

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