[Kictanet] Fw: [alac] President's IDN Committee

[alice at apc.org]

FYI on ICANN's website:
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> ICANN President's Advisory Committee for IDNs
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> 23 November 2005
>
> ICANN is pleased to announce the formation of the President’s Advisory 
> Committee for IDNs. The committee is formed pursuant to ICANN Board 
> Resolution 04.71 in order to “provide the Board and ICANN community with 
> advice on issues that relate to IDN policies, in particular issues that 
> impact the implementation of IDN especially at the top level.”
>
> Committee Members
>
> It should be noted that some of the member seats are intended for specific 
> constituencies and as such the individual on the seat may be changing over 
> time. Further, other individuals than the listed below have been invited 
> and as ICANN is receiving acknowledgements the list below will be updated.
>
> Chairs
> (In alphabetical order)
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> Mouhamet Diop
> CEO, Next SA
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> Prof Hualin Qian
> Professor, Computer Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences
>
> Paul Twomey
> President and CEO
> ICANN
>
> Members
> (In alphabetical order)
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> Pankaj Agrawala
> Joint Secretary, Communication and Information Technology Ministry, India
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> Mohammed El Bashir
> Chairman , Sudan Internet Society
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> Erin Chen
> Internet Engineer, TWNIC
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> Alex Corenthin
> Departement Genie Informatique, Ecole Superieure Polytechnique
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> Mark Davis
> President, Unicode Consortium and Chief SW Globalization Architect, IBM
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> Michael Everson
> CEO, Evertype
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> Patrik Fältström
> Member, Internet Architecture Board and Corporate Consulting Engineer, 
> Cisco Systems
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> Mansour Farah
> Senior Information Technology Officer, United Nations Economic and Social 
> Commission for Western Asia
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> Khaled Fattal
> Chairman and CEO, Multilingual Internet Names Consortium (MINC)
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> Hirofumi Hotta
> Director, Japan Registry Service Co., Ltd. (JPRS)
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> Pat Kane
> Senior Product Manager, Verisign
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> Cary Karp
> President and CEO, MuseDoma
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> Cedarampattu (Ram) Mohan
> Vice President, Business Operations, Afilias
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> Kraisom Pronsuthe
> Former permanent secretary, Information and Communication Technology 
> Ministry, Thailand
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> Imad Sabouni
> General Manager, Syrian Telecom
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> Michel Suignard
> Microsoft
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> James Woods
> Product Manager – Domains, Tucows
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> Hong Xue
> Asia/Australia/Pacific Region, ALAC
>
> Objectives of the Committee
>
>    1. Ensure that the discussions on IDN within the ICANN community 
> contribute to the continued development of the name space.
>    2. Ensure that such discussions promote the use of languages on the 
> Internet in a manner that guarantees the Internet’s continued stability 
> and interoperability.
>    3. Strengthen inclusion, coordination, and collaboration of all 
> organizations involved in IDN discussions and the developing 
> implementation of multilingual domain name solutions.
>    4. Ensure that frequent and timely discussions occur between different 
> organizations and stakeholders (technical, political, government, private 
> sector) on challenges in the successful implementation of IDNs in the DNS.
>    5. Ensure appropriate evolution of the IDN guidelines, their 
> development into a Best Current Practices (BCP) document, and follow up 
> for its implementation into the DNS hierarchy and within TLDs.
>
> Committee Tasks
>
> Committee tasks are anticipated to change as IDN implementation matures. 
> The Committee’s broad representation will promote coordination of IDN 
> related work that takes place within and outside ICANN’s supporting 
> organizations, committees, and stakeholders.
>
> The diversity of member expertise will ensure that the Committee plays a 
> key role in the successful internationalization of the Internet and thus 
> ensures Internet access for all languages.
>
> Initially the Committee is tasked with identifying and proposing solutions 
> to the following main areas:
>
>    1. IDN TLD Challenges: The committee is tasked with analyzing the 
> challenges relating to the implementation of internationalized top level 
> domains and suggestions towards their resolution.
>    2. IDN Technical Development Challenges: The committee is tasked with 
> providing the ICANN President (and staff) with a list of technical 
> barriers and opportunities to the continued development of IDNs and which 
> the community is expecting ICANN to handle or take part in handling.
>    3. IDN Policy Challenges: The Committee is tasked with developing and 
> providing the ICANN President (and staff) with recommendations on how IDN 
> policy issues should be handled, the use of existing policy development 
> processes, and the definition of specific IDN policy processes.
>