Re: [council] Chair's report from Stockholm

["Paul M. Kane" <Paul.Kane@reacto.com>]

Milton et al.

The resolution is correctly recorded (e.g. to delay) until August.  Unfortunately the ICANN Board did not adopt our proposal, which was a little surprising.
Following a number of conversations, I am pleased to advise that Verisign is proposing to make available a suite of tools that will enable IDNs to resolve at an application level, including the WHOIS. This is a good step forward as it will build consumer confidence and will help
reduce Trademark infringements, but again urge that the ability to resolve IDNs at the application level is given a very highest priority.  The IETF should be encouraged to finalise the IDN standard asap.

Best

Paul

Milton Mueller wrote:

> 3. IDNO resolution.
> I believe the wording is wrong. The wording below
> asks "to delay the deployment of resolution of IDNs..."
> I thought we asked "to stop resolving IDNs..."
> The former anguage is odd.
>
> --MM
>

> 9. IDNs
>
> Decision 2.
>
> "The NC Recommends that ICANN encourage ccTLD and gTLD Registries to delay the deployment of resolution of IDNs until such time as the IETF has met in August where it is expected a standards document for IDNs will be agreed."
>
> The recommendation carried by 14 votes in favour, 1 against, 4 abstentions (and 2 missing votes).
>