RE: [council] New ICANN IDN Committee Names Council nominee

["Chicoine, Caroline G." <CCHICOINE@thompsoncoburn.com>]

I support this nomination

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Sheppard [mailto:philip.sheppard@aim.be]
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 9:15 AM
To: NC (list)
Subject: [council] New ICANN IDN Committee Names Council nominee


NC,
at our last NC meeting, we confirmed Elisabeth Porteneuve as chair of the
Council task force on internationalised domain names (IDNs). With respect to
the request below from ICANN for an NC representative to the ICANN
Internationalized Domain Names Committee, it would seem logical to nominate
Elisabeth for this role. She has indicated to me she would be willing to do
this.
 
Accordingly I nominate her formally. Please indicate your support for this
nomination or any alternative by e-mail latest October 26. 
 
Philip Sheppard
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: M. Stuart Lynn <mailto:lynn@icann.org>  
To: Philip Sheppard <mailto:philip.sheppard@aim.be>  
Cc: Masanobu Katoh <mailto:mkatoh@wdc.fujitsu.com>  ; Andrew
<mailto:McLaughlin@icann.org> McLaughlin 
Sent: 16 October 2001 02:49
Subject: New ICANN IDN Committee Names Council nominee

Dear Philip:

The purpose of this note is to enquire whether the Names Council would be
interested in nominating someone to be proposed for membership in the new
ICANN Internationalized Domain Names Committee that the Board authorized at
its meeting in Montevideo last month (see text of resolution appended to
this note). The overall purpose of this Committee is to be a general
coordination body for the work on policy issues identified in the IDN
Working Group Final Report(see http://www.icann.org/montevideo/idn-topic.htm
<http://www.icann.org/montevideo/idn-topic.htm> ) and such other policy
issues that the IDN Committee identifies in the course of its activities.

You may recall that the IDN Working Group (see
http://www.icann.org/committees/idn/) was a committee composed exclusively
of ICANN Directors chaired by Director Katoh. It completed its activities
with its Final Report submitted to the Board at  Montevideo. The main
recommendations of that Final Report were (1) there are a series of
important policy issues regarding the introduction of IDN's that are best
considered now in parallel with the technical work of the IETF, rather than
waiting for the IETF  to announce a proposed standard, and (2) that the
various committees, task forces etc involved with the development of these
policy issues are best coordinated by a single ICANN committee, the IDN
Committee that is more widely rooted in the community. The Board approved
the formation of this IDN Committee - that will also be chaired by Director
Katoh - and asked me to propose its membership to the Board in consultation
with Director Katoh and other members of the ICANN community. Hence this
note

I would certainly be pleased to propose to the Board a member nominated by
the Names Council. I am sure that most of the Committee's work will be
conducted by email, although there may be the occasional teleconference. As
I mentioned, it will be chaired by Director Katoh. Andrew McLaughlin will
provide staff support to the Committee during its start-up phase.

I look forward to hearing from you on the Council's decision one way or the
other.

With  regards,
Stuart

_____________
Resolution passed by the ICANN Board of Directors at its Montevideo meeting,
September 10, 2001:

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.


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