Dear Protocol Council Members, Please find below the answer of Azucena to Steve, concerning the ICANN IDN Committee. Best regards, Vlad -----Original Message----- From: azucena.hernandezperez@telefonica.es [mailto:azucena.hernandezperez@telefonica.es] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 4:38 PM To: vladimir.androuchko@itu.int Subject: Re: FW: ETSI candidate to ICANN Committee Internationalized Domain Names Dear Vlad, Please forward my answer to Steven to the PSO PC exploder. Thanks. 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? Kind regards, Azucena