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.
The President's Committee was planning to meet earlier this week but was rescheduled to 8 Feb. In the interim, the version of the IAB "nextsteps" draft to which John Klensin and Patrik Fältström made reference during our last meeting will be released. I will post notice of its availability and suggest that the Council members review it with a thought to its discussion at our own next meeting (hereby proposing a corresponding agenda item). Since the President's Committee will be meeting two days thereafter, we may wish to use the opportunity to communicate our own recent thinking. Also, at the two most recent Council meetings reference was made to the development of an experiment for determining suitable means for the support of IDN on the top-level of the DNS. Upon listening to the MP3s of those meetings I note that we failed to make an adequate distinction between the IAB draft and the outline of the experiment prepared directly by John. I have therefore (with John's permission) attached a copy of the latter document to the present message. /Cary