Dear Council Members: Given the topic of discussion today regarding IDN TLD policy, I thought the council might find the following excerpt from the proposed ITU guidelines in connection with .INT rather interesting, see http://www.itu.int/md/meetingdoc.asp?type=mitems&lang=e&parent=T05-SG02- 051206-TD-GEN-0106 8.2 Internationalized top-level domain name When policies regarding internationalized top-level domain names are established, the applicant shall have the right to register domain names under internationalized top-level domains corresponding to the characters "int" in Arabic, Chinese and Russian, these being the official languages of the United Nations in which "int" is not rendered as an IRA string, as well as other non-IRA strings corresponding to "int" in other languages as appropriate. Best regards, Michael D. Palage