On 26/01/06, Tina Dam <dam@icann.org> wrote:

Hi Sophia, as it is a bit late in Cary's time zone I thought I would offer
the answer to your first question.

The committee is fairly new and the upcoming meeting in February will be its
second meeting. The list of membership is available online at:
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-23nov05.htm

Please note that membership may change over time as additional needs are
arising in this area.

Kind regards,
Tina Dam
Chief gTLD Registry Liaison
ICANN

Office: +1-310-301-5838
Cell: +1-310-862-2026

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       From: Sophia B [mailto:sophiabekele@gmail.com]
       Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 1:47 PM
       To: Cary Karp
       Cc: council@gnso.icann.org; Tina Dam; John C Klensin; Patrik
Fältström
       Subject: Re: [council] Re: Regarding issues report on IDNs

       Cary,

       Thanks for the update.  Could I kindly ask for your confirmation on
these two matters:

       1) I understand that the President Committe is fairly new, may I ask
who is represented on the committee?
       2) I was also not aware that John was involved in the 'testbed'
scenario until I saw the attachment you sent, based on some of his responses
in the Council meeting.  Would he be working on that with you.

       Many thanks ahead,
       Sophia

       On 26/01/06, Cary Karp <ck@nic.museum> wrote:

               > 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

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