[At-Large] GNSO new gTLD session next week

[JFC Morfin]

Dear Hong,
do you remember where frast-track comes from? It was about the ISO 
3166 internationalization NWIP, only UK, IE and US supported. Let be 
reasonable : Vint Cerf is going to Chair the IETF/WG-IDNABIS to make 
sure they get the best out of IDNA RFC 4690 reviewed partly 
negatively. The proposition is IETF Last Call in November.

This is why:
1) to best help the IETF process every ccTLD Manager and interested 
party should join the 
<http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/idna-update>http://www.alvestand.no/mailman/listinfo/idna-update 
mailing list and give their specific requirements and needs for 
exceptions, in their language of concern.

2) nothing should seriously be expected from IDNA and any further 
ccNSO testing process before mid-2009, once the real RFCs are 
produced. They favor but not know for sure yet if they will keep 
"xn--" domain names.

When you consider RFC 5242 recent work by Harald Alvestrand and John 
Klensin you understand there is still a lot of work to carry in order 
to stabilize a common understanding of the Multilingual and Semantic 
Internet requirements.
jfc

At 06:32 07/04/2008, Hong Xue wrote:

>I, personally, am not a fan of any fast-track. I can tell how messy
>the fast-track at ccNSO is. However, quite a few raised in many venues
>as far as I'm aware of the "unfairness" of letting ccTLDs go first on
>IDNs. The term "fast-track" was truthfully used.
>
>GTLDs might not really need another track but it's got to be really
>fast. Given that we cannot even see a reliable timetable of
>implementation so far (first June 2008 at IGF 2007 and then October
>2008 at ICANN New Delhi), I doubt whether ICANN is running as fast as
>it can to meet any deadline. But, of course, after so long time, I
>have been long disillusioned. I guess no matter I raise this or that,
>I'm only talking to myself.
>
>Hong
>
>
>
>
>On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Alan Greenberg
><alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca> wrote:
> > Depends on how you define "possible". If there was a strong will to do it,
> > it would probably be possible. But given that:
> > - this was not a GNSO recommendation nor has it been raised in other venues
> > that I am aware of;
> > - that the current plan/estimate is that we call for proposals by October
> > 2008;
> > - that staff are no doubt running as fast as they can to meet 
> that deadline,
> >
> > I find it hard to imagine that there is any possibility that this could
> > happen short of a strong Board directive to make it so. And even 
> then, it is
> > not clear how much faster it will be than the generalized process.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> >
> > At 06/04/2008 09:09 PM, Hong Xue wrote:
> > > I'd like to know if a fast-track IDN gTLD implementation could be
> > > possible. It could only include a few scripts from the language
> > > communities with the most pressing need for IDNs.
> > >
> > > Hong
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Wendy Seltzer <wendy at seltzer.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi Alan,
> > > >
> > > > Will you be participating in the GNSO's new gTLD session in LA next
> > > > week?
> > <http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg04906.html>
> > > >
> > > > Do you have the information you need from ALAC, including, I hope, our
> > > > strong endorsement of a simple, rapid process to unblock the 
> addition of
> > > > new gTLDs?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > --Wendy
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Wendy Seltzer -- wendy at seltzer.org
> > > > Visiting Professor, Northeastern University School of Law
> > > > Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
> > > > http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html
> > > > http://www.chillingeffects.org/
> > > > https://www.torproject.org/
> > > >
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