Hello Patrick Falstrom Thank you for your response to this message and for your positive comments which are very encouraging. I feel that this can still be considered for the Seoul schedule. Thank you Sivasubramanian Muthusamy 2009/8/31 Patrik Fältström <patrik@frobbit.se>:

On 31 aug 2009, at 16.59, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote:

...

The suggestion is to have inter-constituency meetings during Seoul where ccNSO, GNSO and its commercial and non-commercial constituencies, GAC, ALAC, SSAC as also Board Representatives, Staff designated for IDNs, finance and administration committees, IETF, external advisory / support groups, IDN user groups otherwise not part of the ICANN organization and invited experts could all gather together in one room on a suitable day during the Seoul Meeting to discuss all pending issues related to IDN implementation. The purpose is to bring together view points from the different constituencies / support organizations / experts to reconcile the most important issues that could consume time if discussed in different rooms.

FWIW, I think this is a good idea, and it will in general move ICANN one step forward regarding multistakeholder participation. Reason for this is that there is some view out there that ICANN Constituencies stop working when each one of them have reached a consensus -- the rest of the consensus building (across constituences) are left as an exercise for ICANN staff and of course the Board.

So I strongly support this initiative. Not only for IDN discussions but in general for ICANN. I think there should be a broader consensus in general before decisions are made. Call me conservative, but we play with dangerous goods here (the global DNS system).

  Regards, Patrik [that for many unfortunate reasons called in 40 min late, but did not hear anyone, so that was too late]