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Originally Posted by zenmarketing
Tina, welcome to the site. I have one question that's been on my mind for a while:
As registrants, what routes do we have available to affect these policy decisions?
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There are a few ways.
One would be to participate in the ALAC work.
http://alac.icann.org/ The ALAC is the At-Large Advisory Committee and they have a working group for IDNs.
Another is participating in the tests at
http://idn.icann.org - this is all about user expectation and expectations.
Another is the more technical oriented protocol revision, which takes places under the IETF. Next meeting is in Vancouver in December, but most work takes place via emails.
http://www.ietf.org
Depending on how close you are to your registrars you may also be able to influence them and in that way work through the registrars constituency.
Depending on whether or not you are a Government representative you might be able to join your governments representative in the GAC.
http://gac.icann.org
Maybe you can ask application providers to make chnages that you would like to see....although this is also an anticipated result of the idn.icann.org
If the characters you would like to use in domain names are not in Unicode yet (the IDN protocol is based on Unicode) then work with the UTC on getting it included.
ICANN sometimes have forums for public comments, keep an eye on
http://icann.org or
http://icann.org/topics/idn and the associated RSS feeds...
...ok there are other ways, but its getting late here. Let me know if you can use any of the above.
Tina