An online meeting washeld on Saturday evening to discuss online public comments on finalizing thepractice of writing domains in Bengali in a browser-integrated manner. Postsand Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar presided over the 90-minutedigital meeting. Brigadier General Mahfuzul Karim Majumder, Director General ofB&RC\'s E&O Division was the coordinator of the meeting.

The discussion wasattended by Mamun Aur Rashid, Bangla Language Technology Specialist, ICTDepartment, Mohammad Abdul Haque Anu, Secretary-General, Bangladesh InternetGovernance Forum and Hasib Rahman, Chief Technology Engineer, LanguageTechnology Specialists and Professionals Systems.

According to meetingsources, ICANN, an international organization, is working on formulating atechnical policy for writing Bangla domains. As a result, it will be possibleto write domains in Bengali in a browser.

In this regard, MohammadAbdul Haque Anu, Secretary-General of Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum, saidthat ICANN, through its IDN project, had taken the initiative to formulate atechnical policy (LGR or Level Generation Rule) of nine scripts in India,including Bengali, for top-level only. An international panel-NBGP (Neo-BrahmiGeneration Panel) with members from Bangladesh drafted the policy for more thantwo years.

According to sources,public comment for the draft is currently underway. Interested people from allwalks of life including linguists, technologists, calligraphers andlocalization experts of the country can observe the technical and practicalaspects of the policy and give their views on Bengali LGR by clicking here tillMay 7.