Re: [council] MOTION on Nominees to the new ICANN IDNsCommitee: ICANN Board has selected part of its members

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

Caroline:

Yes.  But you just said it: Not from DNSO.   It is very important
that DNSO provides technical input also in Non-ASCII, as I explained in
my previous e-mail answering to Philip.

Best Regards
Vany

"Chicoine, Caroline G." wrote:
> 
> Is there not a non-ascii representative already on the Task Force (albeit
> not from the DNSO)?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vany Martinez [mailto:vany_martinez@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 9:08 AM
> To: council@dnso.org
> Subject: RE: [council] MOTION on Nominees to the new ICANN IDNsCommitee:
> I CANN Board has selected part of its members
> 
> Caroline:
> 
> I though DNSO also worries about technical issues
> inside DNS.  If not, then why the need of one DNSO
> representative at all inside such committee?  If ICANN
> is appointing DNSO also in this IDN Committee is
> because they want technical input from DNSO.
> 
> Under the light that ICANN is requesting one
> representative of DNSO for reason of technical input,
> then I consider that DNSO has to have full coverage of
> such technical input we can provide by having two
> experts instead of one (for ASCII and Non-ASCII).
> 
> I want to add that I also support that Elisabeth be
> there since I know that she has the technical
> background that would make that characters and accents
> not included in the English alphabet (most of them
> incuded in the ASCII table) be implemented properly.
> 
> However, I think that the inclusion of another person
> from DNSO to form a team with her that also
> contributes with all Non-ASCII character scripts (from
> latin scripts as cyrilic, greek, etc, passing from
> hebrew, arab, ethiopian, etc...to chineese, japoneese,
> korean, etc, will enrich and improove the DNSO
> participation in the ICANN IDN Committee.
> 
> Best Regards
> Vany
> 
> --- "Chicoine, Caroline G."
> <CCHICOINE@thompsoncoburn.com> wrote:
> > Vany, given that ICANN kicked WIPO off the IDN Task
> > Force on the grounds
> > that this is primarily a technical issue, I doubt it
> > will see the need for
> > two representatives form the non-technical DNSO.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nilda Vany Martinez Grajales
> > [mailto:vany@sdnp.org.pa]
> > Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 11:28 AM
> > To: council@dnso.org
> > Subject: Re: [council] MOTION on Nominees to the new
> > ICANN IDNsCommitee:
> > ICANN Board has selected part of its members
> >
> >
> > Hi to all:
> >
> > ICANN Board in its meeting in Los Angeles has
> > announced that they had
> > appointed part of the members of the ICANN IDNs
> > Committee:
> >
> > "Whereas the President, after consultation with the
> > community, has
> > proposed the following individuals to
> >          serve on the IDN Committee: Director
> > Sang-Hyon Kyong, Patrik
> > Falstrom (IETF), Vincent Wen-Sung Chen
> >          (TWNIC), Qiheng Hu (Internet Society of
> > China), Mohd Sharil
> > Tarmizi (GAC Vice Chair), and Stuart Lynn
> >          (ICANN CEO), and reports that he is still
> > in the process of
> > identifying other individuals who could
> >          meaningfully contribute to this effort;"
> >
> > Due to the previous statement, I invite all of you
> > to review again the
> > motion I had proposed.  Comments are welcome.  I
> > think it is
> > very important that: 1.  DNSO has a full coverage of
> > the IDN issues by
> > being allowed to has two representatives in the IDN
> > taks force to work
> > together dealing with ASCII and non-ASCII character
> > issues and
> > 2.  that the commitee be as diverse as possible.
> >
> > Please, be so kind to read again the two motions
> > proposed and share your
> > thoughs about them:
> >
> > > > Motion #1:
> > > > "The Names Council request to ICANN Board that
> > appoints two participants
> > > > representing DNSO instead of one to serve in the
> > ICANN IDNs Committee.
> > Such
> > > > persons doesn't have to be neceasrily
> > > > Names Council members.  The Names Council will
> > be in charge of
> > appointing such
> > > > two  participants.  One  participant has to be
> > knowledgeable in
> > languages
> > > > covered by ASCII table and the other participant
> > > > has to be knowledgeable in languages not covered
> > by ASCII table.  Both
> > of them
> > > > has to have as mother tongue a language
> > different than English in order
> > to
> > > > assure the proper representation and sensibility
> > for languages and
> > scripts
> > > > different than English be implemented in the
> > DNS"
> > > >
> > > > Motion #2
> > > > The Names Council request to the ICANN Board
> > that the compostion of the
> > > > ICANN IDNs Committee might be diverse as
> > possible and comprise a wide
> > variety
> > > > of experts and natives, not only
> > > > in ASCII or Non-ASCII characters, also experts
> > in the different kinds of
> > > > scripts
> > > > that can be clasified in the following groups:
> > Cyrillic, Latin,
> > Katakana,
> > > > Ethiopic, Syriac, Devanagari,
> > > > Arabic, Batak, Bengali, Buginese Buhid, Cham,
> > Han, Greek, Canadian
> > Aboriginal,
> > > > Thaana, Tibetan, Georgian,
> > > > Gujarati, Hanunoo, Hebrew, Hmong, Hiragana,
> > Kannada, Myanmar, Khmer,
> > Thai,
> > > > Malayalam, Thaana, Mongolian,
> > > > Naxi, Oriya, Gurmukhi, Sinhala, Tagalog,
> > Tagbanwa, Tamil, Telegu, Yi".
> > > >
> > > > The list of scripts was taken from the following
> > webpage:
> > > >
> >
> http://www.unicode.org/unicode/onlinedat/languages-scripts.html
> >
> >
> > Best Regards
> > Vany
> >
> > --
> > 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
> 
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> Nilda Vany Martinez Grajales
> Information Technology Specialist
> Sustainable Development Networking Programme/Panama
> http://www.sdnp.org.pa e-mail: vany@sdnp.org.pa
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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