In message <905DD86907DAD3119DE70000778D770F04E4137A@mailsrv1.itu.ch>, "Androuc hko, Vladimir" writes: > >Dear Steve, dear PSO PC colleagues, > >Without having any other candidate from the PSO to the newly created ICANN >IDN committee, I am not going to enter into details about whether or not Mr >Laorden has the appropriate background. Once we have all the candidates, >then we will analyse the pros and cons of each of them and choose the one >who can best contribute to the work. >Mr Laorden in well known in ICANN and he is participating the new gTLDs >task group. He has followed the work on International Domains since it >started as Spanish is a language with characters outside the basic ANSI >set. He is indeed not an "IETF guy" but it is an ETSI member and therefore >qualified to be a candidate from our organisation. >Has the IETF a candidate? I'm by no means suggesting that the PSO nominee has to be an "IETF guy" -- I was simply stating what the IETF had found to be at the heart of the technical problems. But the issue I was really raising is more basic: what are the qualifications we're looking for? Until we know that, we don't know whom to nominate. My assumption is that since we as a group are charged with providing technical advice, we should try to select someone can provide such guidance on committees. But that's just what I said it was: an assumption. I'm quite willing to be persuaded otherwise in any given case. (The IETF strongly encourages its working groups to write requirements documents before trying to invent a solution. I'm sure that other groups operate the same way.) --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb Full text of "Firewalls" book now at http://www.wilyhacker.com