Re: [council] MULTILINGUAL TEST BED DISCUSSION

["Milton Mueller" <Mueller@syr.edu>]

So, ICANN has no authority over either Verisign or the 
ccTLDs. I would therefore propose a substitute motion, 
one that gets to the essence of the proposed
resolution:

"In the introduction of IDNs, standardization and 
compatibility are good things." 

Any seconds?

>>> "Cochetti, Roger" <RCochetti@verisign.com> 10/25/01 06:30PM >>>
To avoid confusion, the ICANN contract with VGRS that was in effect through
May of this year did not provide ICANN with authority over the introduction
of new VGRS services. Consequently, the VGRS multilingual testbed, which was
introduced in the Fall of last year, was introduced under a contract that
did not provide ICANN with the review rights that Elizabeth has described.