If the Board was to make a significant mistake leading to a train wreck, would you let them? You are all physically in Dublin. 90 minutes away from the AGM's public Board meeting. You have the ability to put together ALAC Chair + Vice Chairs + Consultants (like you) + ALAC selected Board Member (Leon) to request an emergency bilateral meeting with the Board Chair + Vice Chair - perhaps even pulling in the Canadian GAC Rep and GAC Chair too. Everyone's at most physically 10-15 minutes away from you. Don't tell me it's too late because we've had such emergency meetings in the past. That's what face to face meetings are for. Otherwise we could dispense of face to face meetings altogether and run ICANN remotely throughout the year like a public administration and *a train with no leadership*. Kindest regards, Olivier On 30/10/2025 12:58, Alan Greenberg via CPWG wrote:
I support the sentiment, but note that the concluding session is a Board meeting with no opportunity for Board input.
Alan
On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM lists--- via CPWG <cpwg@icann.org> wrote:
Allow me to react to what we have just heard in the ICANN Public Forum (ICANN84 Dublin.)
A participant speaking on behalf of the working group on Latin Diacritics stated that the Applicant Guide Book for the next gTLD Round would not include Latin Diacritics. The response from the Board was that, absent a recommendation from GNSO, “our hands are tied”!
I recall that the IDN issue has been on ICANN’s table, to my certain knowledge since ICANN03 1999 Santiago. (I was there). It should have been settled by now.
Furthermore, casual inspection of the World’s literature, media and press would confirm that latin diacritics are integral to languages widely used in the Americas, Africa, Europe and elsewhere. One does not have to be a universal linguist to appreciate the social, economic and cultural scale of this issue. Their use in the DNS should have been a no-brainer a long time ago.
*Since ICANN84 has not yet concluded, may I request that this situation be reviewed during the ALAC wrap up this afternoon and addressed again to the IANN Board during the concluding session.*
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Thank you for your attention
Christopher Wilkinson (on-line)
On 24 Oct 2025, at 19:11, cw--- via CPWG <cpwg@icann.org> wrote:
Good evening:
Please find attached my comments. I apologise for the rather traditional format.
Regards
Christopher
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1. There are several references to GNSO PDPs producing ‘hard-won consensus recommendations by virtue of a bottom-up multi-stakeholder process’, or words to that effect. This does not ring true.
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On 17 Oct 2025, at 09:39, Justine Chew via CPWG <cpwg@icann.org> wrote:
Dear all,
Thank you again to those who have started providing some input. We welcome and would appreciate more, by way of comments in *this Googledoc* <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_guDm6YehHPwW68jS5JHtUD6RyC0kZJHDXErrEPs...> by Wednesday 22 October 2025, 23:59 UTC as we are hoping to discuss relevant inputs during the CPWG Session at ICANN84.
Please read my email below for details.
Kind regards, Justine * *
On Sat, 11 Oct 2025 at 12:17, Justine Chew <justine.chew.icann@gmail.com> wrote:
What is this about?
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