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

[Elisabeth Porteneuve <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr>]

As per Caroline request.
Within 24 hours of vote, 8 persons from 21 sent answers, 38 percent.
Distributed as follows:
           4 I agree on the IDN motion
           3 I disagree on the IDN motion
           1 I abstain

Elisabeth
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> From owner-council@dnso.org Fri Oct 26 22:09 MET 2001
> Message-ID: <1711F1517784D24A8F10B158DCD0A31B1092A5@mail1>
> From: "Chicoine, Caroline G." <CCHICOINE@thompsoncoburn.com>
> To: "'Elisabeth Porteneuve'" <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr>,
>         council@dnso.org
> Cc: RCochetti@verisign.com
> Subject: RE: [council] Introduction of iDNs to be delayed to allow greater
> 	 consultation -  Thanks......
> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:08:16 -0500
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> 
> 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
>