-----Original Message----- From: Schink Helmut [mailto:helmut.schink@icn.siemens.de] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 11:03 AM To: vladimir.androuchko@itu.int; PSO-PC Cc: phil.davidson@bt.com; Vint Cerf (E-Mail) Subject: ICANN Meeting in Montevideo Dear all, a few words from the meeting of ICANN in Montevideo Sept. 7-10, 2001. All 3 PSO directors participated, Phil Davidson, Vint Cerf and myself. - ENUM was presented by Tony Holmes and MarK McFadden. The presentation was really excellent and open the eys for many of the ICANN community on the issues involved here. Whilst the technical side seems to be nearly resolved, many open issues in the implementation need to be resolved. A close cooperation between ITU/IETF and ICANN is requiered to ensure a timely implementation. The presentation can be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/montevideo/archive/pres/enum.html - alternative routes: the pressure from various registries/registrars is increasing and a position from the PSO until the next meeting in November is required - the ccTLD managers are in the process to set up a separate Support Organisation and will approach the PSO to negotiate the mutual relationship - the status of the report of the at large study committee was presented and heavily debated. It recommends direct elections by individual domain name holders which should also finance the elections. A number of 6 directors is proposed. The final debate and conclusion will be in November and the PSO input is urgently required. It should be posted before the meeting to give it more time to impact the debate. - a committee on Internationalized domain names was estabished to work on policies and try to coordinate with the technical work - the evaluation of the new TLDs takes more time than (at least I) expected. The evaluation process itself will not be defined before 3/2002. - stabilisation of ICANN is progressing, the finicial stability is improving but still the contracts with ccTLDs, RIR are missing. - the SRS (shared registry system) is currently observing significant problems due to overload in from names which are returned. The ICANN constituencies are working on policies and technical ammendments. But should this not be an issue for the PSO members? - The due date for the IRP nominations (7 members) was extended until Oct. 15, 2001shortly prior to the next meeting as requested by the IRP nom com - the MoU with the US Department of Commerce will be extended for another year until Sept. 2002. Several iisues like the contracts with ccTLDs, RIR are still missing. Hope is there that this will be solved during this period, but since the MoU uses a vague language and progress with the contracts is slow, this can be questioned - geographical names in the second level becomes an increasing issue, driven by the governements who would like to reserve them for the new gTLDs - the meeting frequency will be reduced to 3 meetings per year with an emphasis to outreach. The 2002 meetings will be in Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia. Best regards Helmut Schink ------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Helmut Schink Siemens AG, ICN AS BD Information and Communication Networks Access Solutions phone: +49 89 722 44523 mobile: +49 172 8146471 http://www.siemens.de