Re: "We had so many rounds of public consultations and opened so many channels for the IDN users to participate. I cannot accept that it is completed "in a rush". Yet when I look at the archive of the IDN WG I see no group discussions. Nor do I see Terms of Reference, a plan of action or policy choices enumerated that reflect considerations given to an interim or to an overall approach. What I see is vacillating and contradictory statements: one the one hand, the ALAC states (AL/2007/R/3): "no priority rights for new domain names shall derive from the possession of existing domain name strings as such", yet on the other hand it now seeks to give priority rights (the fast-track) for new domain names that derive from the possession of existing ccTLD domain name strings. It seems as if the ALAC is merely jumping on the latest bandwagon that comes across rather than taking principled stands. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs