RE: [council] Introduction of iDNs to be delayed to allow greater consultation - Thanks......

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

While I can agree to abandon the vote at this time, I simply encourage that
now that we know that mid-January is the next deadline that we not wait
until a couple of days before then to prepare a resolution if f it becomes
necessary.

Also, Elisabeth can you please advise what the outcome of the vote was.

-----Original Message-----
From: Elisabeth Porteneuve [mailto:Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 3:03 PM
To: council@dnso.org
Cc: RCochetti@verisign.com
Subject: RE: [council] Introduction of iDNs to be delayed to allow
greater consultation - Thanks......



Council Colleagues,

The message from Verisign is much appreciated - let me join Paul
and send my thanks as well.
It provides for clarifications with regard to IDN plans. It informs 
that the timing of resolution of IDN names in the com, net and org zones 
will be delayed until mid-January 2002. Eventually it allows to 
the community an additional time for better understanding a very 
complex IDN issues. 

But we need to learn rapidly, possibly to get briefings 
from experts, from those involved in IDN development. 
The complexity is at every level, not only encoding, but also
on current applications: which of them will evolve towards IDN, 
and which not, and how competition is doing at that level.

As the first step, I would be grateful if VeriSign could organize
an IDN briefing for the Names Council in Marina del Rey, with 
possible participation from engineers. Roger, could you help ?

Last not the least - we have an immediate consequence of VeriSign 
announcement, the undergoing vote by the NC on the IDN motion 
is abandoned - we started 24 hours ago, 8 persons sent answer.

Elisabeth Porteneuve