Re: [council] Motion on International Domain Names

[Nilda Vany Martinez Grajales <vany@sdnp.org.pa>]

Elisabeth:

Please, first my apologizes for being a little bit late with this
proposal of addition. I put this to the consideration of the NC such
proposal of addition. I hope it be welcome.


The NC also makes a call to ICANN makes strong recommendations and make
a call to IETF to work
together with the relevant organizations that also have begun to work in
IDNs techonology in order to develop such standards, including but not
limited to organizations as ccTLDs already implementing IDNs, commercial
entities as Verisign, non-commercial entities as MINC, any government,
any other research groups, and any group that be necessery in order to
take in count
other non-technical aspects that may also affects the implementation of
the IDNs.

Best Regards
Vany






--- Elisabeth Porteneuve <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr> wrote:
> 
> 
> Colleagues,
> 
> It seems to me we have a stable text.
> 
> I move the motion the Names Council passes the
> following resolution
> regarding International Domain Names, and forward it
> to the ICANN Board.
> 
> Do I have a second ?
> 
> Elisabeth
> --
> 
> 
> DRAFT names Council motion on IDN (final version
> v4).
> 
> 
> 1. Whereas the technical work by the IETF (Internet
> Engineering Task Force)
>    is at the basis of Internet developments, and
> recognized as
>    such by the worldwide community and by ICANN;
> 
> 2. Whereas the IETF IDN (International Domain Names)
> engineers have 
>    determined twelve items to be defined  at the
> technical level before 
>    the ML (Multi-Lingual) domain names should be
> used in order to preserve 
>    globally unique naming in a universally
> resolvable public name space;
> 
> 3. Whereas only an important but insufficient
> element in the encoding scheme
>    has been published to date by the IETF and that
> element only as a draft;
> 
> 4. Whereas there cannot be an open competition at an
> application level
>    without all the IDN specifications completed and
> published;
> 
> 5. Whereas the deployment of IDN space in countries
> using non ASCII
>    characters is an order of magnitude higher than
> in
>    English-speaking countries, because  it impacts
> on inherent culture;
> 
> 6. Whereas the introduction of IDN names must have
> careful,
>    worldwide coordination across all TLD space to
> avoid political battles, 
>    a profusion of encoding prefixes and
> corresponding confusion;
> 
> 7. Whereas it is critical to understand how the
> whois accessible
>    databases for IDN would function for gTLD and
> ccTLD alike;
> 
> 8. Whereas the International Treaty Organizations,
> WIPO and ITU, are
>    planning a joint Symposium on Multilingual Domain
> Names in Geneva,
>    December 6 and 7, 2001;
> 
> 9. Whereas the domain name system is a key
> infrastructure component
>    of the Internet and ICANN is committed to
> preserve the stability
>    and security of this worldwide resource;
> 
> The Names Council advises that having multiple and
> non-interoperable
> implementations in the DNS has the potential to be
> harmful for the 
> stability and securty of the DNS.
> 
> The Names Council therefore calls upon the ICANN
> Board to take the 
> necessary steps to delay the transformation of any
> TLD IDN "testbed" 
> into active domain names in the Root until such time
> as the IETF 
> standards be completed;
> 
> --

-- 
Nilda Vany Martinez Grajales
Information Technology Specialist
Sustainable Development Networking Programme/Panama
Tel: (507) 317-0169
http://www.sdnp.org.pa
e-mail:  vany@sdnp.org.pa