Title: Re: New ICANN IDN Committee: PSO Council nominee
Dear
Protocol Council Members,
Please
find below the note of Mr. S. Lynn, concerning the ICANN IDN
Committee.
Best
regards,
Vlad
Dear Vladimir:
Appended is the text of the resolution passed by the Board in Montevideo
authorizing the IDN Committee.
The operative part as far as appointment of members is concerned is:
"Further resolved [01.98] that the President, in
consultation with the IDN Committee Chair, shall propose, for approval by the
Board, representatives to serve on the IDN Committee from the ICANN Board, the
Supporting Organizations, the Governmental Advisory Committee, and such other
individuals who in his judgment could meaningfully contribute to this
effort."
As far as the Supporting Organizations are concerned, I
am taking that to mean that each Supporting Organization would recommend one or
more representatives. If more than one is nominated, I would choose from the
list in consultation with Director Katoh, before submitting the complete list to
the Board for approval. I will also nominate other individuals to the Board,
following consultation with Director Katoh, as indicated in the last sentence of
the resolution.
I hope this is helpful.
Stuart
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Whereas, in resolution
01.39 the Board established an internal working group on Internationalized Domain
Names to identify the various
internationalization efforts and the issues they raise, to engage in dialogue
with technical experts and other participants in these efforts, and to make
appropriate recommendations to the Board;
Whereas, the internal working
group conducted various information-gathering activities, including the posting
of a community survey;
Whereas, the internal working group presented
an interim report
at the ICANN Public Forum held in Stockholm on 3
June 2001, and that report was discussed at
the Public Forum,
at the Board Meeting, and on ICANN's Internationalized
Domain Names web-based public forum;
Whereas, the internal working group presented
its final report at
the ICANN Public Forum held in Montevideo on 9
September 2001;
Whereas, the final report
identified several policy issues meriting further evaluation and recommended
that the examination of these issues proceed in parallel with continuing
technical standardization and other preparatory work for the introduction of
IDNs;
Whereas, these policy issues cannot be fully resolved until
the Internet Engineering Task
Force completes
work on a deployable IDN standard, but initial
work on the policy issues that will arise can and should proceed
concurrently;
Whereas, the final report also recommended that the Board
establish an IDN Committee to coordinate the work of various ICANN supporting
organizations, committees, and other groups on the policy issues and to promote
timely development of policy recommendations on them; and
Whereas, the
Board has considered public comment on the final report made electronically and
at the Montevideo Public Forum;
Resolved [01.94] that IDN Committee is
hereby established under Article VII, Section
1(c), of the ICANN bylaws to serve as a general
coordination body for the work on policy issues identified in the IDN Working
Group Report and such other policy issues that the IDN Committee shall
identify;
Further resolved [01.95] that the IDN Committee shall be
responsible for promoting the coordination of the work of the ICANN supporting
organizations, committees, and other groups on the policy issues arising from
IDNs, as documented in the final report, and to promote timely development of
policy recommendations on those issues for consideration by the community and
the ICANN Board;
Further resolved [01.96] that in its policy-coordination
activities, the IDN Committee should seek to ensure that any recommendations are
achieved through a bottom-up process, and that those recommendations reflect a
wide range of expertise on the different aspects relevant to the
issues;
Further resolved [01.97] that the IDN Committee shall be chaired
by Director Masanobu Katoh;
Further resolved [01.98] that the President, in
consultation with the IDN Committee Chair, shall propose, for approval by the
Board, representatives to serve on the IDN Committee from the ICANN Board, the
Supporting Organizations, the Governmental Advisory Committee, and such other
individuals who in his judgment could meaningfully contribute to this
effort;
Further resolved [01.99] that the IDN Committee is encouraged to
commission panels of volunteer experts from different countries with practical
experience in the policy issues identified in the Final Report, and linguistic
experts (including experts in non-ASCII character sets and languages not spoken
by persons active in current discussions); and
Further resolved [01.100] that the IDN Committee is
requested to present its initial work plan, schedule, and proposed budget for
approval by the ICANN Board at the third ICANN annual meeting, to be held in
Marina del Rey in November 2001."
Dear Stuart,
On behalf of the Protocol
Council, I would like to ask you for
clarifications concerning the IDN
Nominee.
Could you be so kind as to clarify the procedures for IDN
Nominee/Election?
How many candidates will be elected, are representatives
proposed by the
different Supporting Organizations? What are the
deadlines?
During the last conference call that took place on Friday, 26
October PSO-PC
have considered this issue but Protocol Council Members need
some more time
to take a decision.
Thank you very much for your
explanations.
Sincerely yours,
Vladimir
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Stuart Lynn
President and CEO
ICANN
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310-823-9358
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Email: lynn@icann.org