From what you are saying, the messages given at Toronto aren't going to happen.
The IETF is 100% run by volunteers, and is open to anyone willing to show up and do the work. Most of the work is done on mailing lists and by submitting and reviewing draft documents online, so the barriers to participation are very low. Nevertheless, of the many people who insisted it was very very very important that WEIRDS produce a spec for names, approximately none of them are on the WIERDS mailing list or have done any work. Thie tells me, and the rest of the IETF, that in fact the ICANN community does not consider this to be an important problem. (If it's not important enough for you to work on it, it's not important for us, either.)
I hope, therefore, at the Beijing meeting, you - or someone from the group - will give a presentation
Sorry, I have actual work to do for real clients and a $0 budget for ICANN junkets. If someone thinks it's worth putting together a talk for Beijing, the drafts and the list archives are not hard to find. R's, John