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[nc-idn] DRAFT MOTION proposal
IDN Task Force members
Following the Names Council call on 11 October,
I believe it is important we address the IDN issue, and
I submit for your consideration the following DRAFT MOTION.
I have been contacting several persons on IDN matter,
the general comment is: we need more time, it is too rushed,
we need to undertstand.
All comments are welcome. Please send them as soon as possible.
Elisabeth
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DRAFT MOTION.
1. Whereas the technical work by the IETF is at the basis of Internet
developments, and recognized as such by the worldwide community
and by ICANN;
2. Whereas the IETF IDN engineers determined twelve items to be defined
on technical level before the ML domain names could be used with the
Internet's existing end-to-end model and that preserve globally
unique naming in a universally resolvable public name space;
3. Whereas only the first issue on encoding scheme had only just been
published by IETF as draft version, remaining as such until March 2002,
and without key component defined;
4. Whereas there cannot be an open competition at an application level
without the IDN specifications completed and published;
5. Whereas the deployment of IDN space in countries using non ASCII
characters is by orders of magnitude of higher importance that in
English speaking countries, as it impacts the heart of all cultures;
6. Whereas the introduction of the IDN names requests for the careful,
worldwide coordination across all TLD space (unless leading towards
political battles, number of encoding prefixes and a corresponding
combinatory effects, leading to the total confusion of customers,
business and individuals alike, and damaging ML cultural aspects);
7. Whereas it is critical to understand how the whois accessible
databases for IDN be populated across all TLD space (gTLD and ccTLD
and Registrars alike), as well how it will impact Universal Whois
queries;
9. Whereas the International Treaty Organizations, WIPO and ITU, are
just planning a joint Symposium on Multilingual Domain Names in Geneva,
December 6 and 7, 2001, convening the Member States from the
whole planet (the impact of International Domain Names is enough
wide and important, that the Internet community understand the issues,
not only technical, but the others like the dispute policies);
10. Whereas the domain name system is a key infrastructure component
of the Internet and the ICANN is committed to preserve the stability
and security of the worldwide resource, taking into account users
from the world;
The Names Council urges the ICANN Board to take the necessary steps
and to stop a transformation of the VeriSign IDN "testbed" under
dot com/org/net into active domain names and putting them in the
Root until such time as the IETF standards be completed and the
worldwide peaceful coordination of IDN deployment may happen.
The Names Council advise that having multiple and non-interoperable
implementations in the dns would be harmful for all.
References:
1. The IETF published on 4 Sep 2001 an Internet Draft (expiring 4 Mar 2002)
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idn-amc-ace-z-01.txt
2. The IDN testbed authorization under .com given to VeriSign in
http://www.icann.org/minutes/minutes-25sep00.htm (... constructive
experimentation with extensions to the domain name system to support
multilingual names should be encouraged, provided it is done in a
manner consistent with promoting responsible standardization, it avoids
disrupting the stability of the Internet or the interoperability of
Internet services, and its experimental character is clearly
understood by all affected)
3. The NC resolution (Decision D2) in Stockholm
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010602.NCstockholm-minutes.html
4. The ML implications on the stability of the Internet or the
interoperability of Internet services became of utmost importance
to all stakeholders, including governments and the ICANN Board,
as shown in Montevideo resolutions 01.94 to 01.100, establishing
an IDN Committee as part of ICANN Corporation. Chaired by
Director Masanobu Katoh.
http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-10sep01.htm
5. VeriSign announcement to convert its current RICE encoding
used at the testbed to AMC-ACE-Z, with deployment of zone
files from October 27th, 2001 through November 12th, 2001,
and making the testbed domain names active
cf: http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/registrars/Arc01/msg01279.html
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