Dear Bruce, Per the agenda tabled for Washington meeting, the matters of IDN has been mentioned, viz (4) 1:30pm - 3:30pm - PART 1 Should we have new gTLDs? - review external influences - e.g alternative roots (both ASCII and IDN based), search engines, tld (cctld and gtld) registry competition, growth in Internet users that are non-English speaking and users that use different character sets. However, your email note to me below, expressed that due to IDNs wide scope, it would not be part of our Washington meeting. While the agenda mentions influence ( seem like market analysis) vs. usability of course, if it is to lead us to discuss POLICY or technical issues of IDN?, please advise so as to determine scope. Many thanks. Sophia --------------- On 24/01/06, Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au> wrote:
Hello Sophia,
I suppose the PDP public forum does not include the IDN at this point. Correct?
We formally requested an issues report on IDN's in Vancouver. However we were informed that there was some other work going on via the President's committee and also work within the IAB that would help in the development of that report.
I expect we should have the report for our meeting in Wellington, but as IDN's is a large and very specialised topic I don't see that being on the agenda for the meeting in Washington.
Regards, Bruce
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