IDN TLD Variants work continues

[555]

> > For IDN TLD Variant:
> > - August 2010 (During the public comment period for the Single
> > Character IDN TLD Initial Report): Start stocktaking of policy issues,
> > along with background materials and definition. Thereupon decide
> > further on a reasonable schedule going forward.

http://forum.icann.org/lists/jig/msg00087.html

Define reasonable...

[bumblebee man]

Define reasonable...

I guess, there's a difference between reasonable and Icann reasonable.

[IDNCowboy]

I guess, there's a difference between reasonable and Icann reasonable.

I'm still confused what their multi million dollar budget for IDNs goes towards each year.... Doesn't seem we are getting too much out of ICANN within reasonable timeframes.

[chrisofmel]

I'm still confused what their multi million dollar budget for IDNs goes towards each year.... Doesn't seem we are getting too much out of ICANN within reasonable timeframes.

its called job security my friend, its a non profit company. why not move at a snails pace it pays better over time. http://www.domainnamenews.com/icann-policy/icann-publishes-salaries-top-level-employees/7162

[555]

>>STEVE DELBIANCO: Steve Delbianco for Net Choice Coalition.
Carlos, you said your focus on who was all about people. I feel as if
talking about just applicants as people, you missed the fact that 56%
of the people on the planet don't use the Latin script as their
primary language. And until this year, they've had zero capability to
do a URL, domain name, or e-mail address. So I have a question, if
the who is the people, we aren't really serving them today with
anything but a couple of IDN ccTLDs. And what I'm hearing this week,
it would be one or two years before the gTLD IDNs can serve these
people. So I saw a little bit of a clash, if the who we're serving
are the people, it may be necessary to give incentives to companies to
launch their gTLDs in versions of other languages that are IDNs or
they're just not going to do it. They're not going to spend 2- to
$400,000 to serve those people. So how does that clash between the
first group that said we wouldn't serve, say, a commercial applicant,
even though we know they're serving the people that need it most?


>>CHUCK GOMES: My name is Chuck Gomes. I have a question with
regard to the bundling idea with regard to underserved language
communities.

New gTLD applicants as well as even existing registries who want to
offer IDN gTLDs are not in need of special support with regard to
financial support or like that, but they would be very unlikely to be
able to justify, from a business point of view, offering their
versions of their IDN TLDs and pay 185,000 fee, et cetera, to
underserved language community.

Is it the intent or even consideration, I know they are not definite
recommendations yet, of the working group to include that kind of
bundling opportunity in your recommendation?

http://forum.icann.org/lists/soac-newgtldapsup-wg/msg00321.html

[IDNCowboy]

its called job security my friend, its a non profit company. why not move at a snails pace it pays better over time. http://www.domainnamenews.com/icann-policy/icann-publishes-salaries-top-level-employees/7162
By the time they are done the internet will be obsolete and half of us will be living on Mars!

[555]

Taking bets on idn.idn live no later then dec 25,2011.
I don't think that the idn gtld's will remain attached to the ascii new gtld's for much longer which should allow this to once and for all be completed.

[Drewbert]

Yep. Fasttrack part 2 coming up.