IDN.idn News idn pushed back to 2009?

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Some IDNs news in ICANN India Meeting
Submitted by china on Sat, 2008-02-16 13:25. IDNs Only a little
We also want to extend thanks on behalf of the entire community to our hosts from the Indian Government's Department of Information Technology and from the National Internet Exchange of India," said Dr Paul Twomey, ICANN's President and CEO. " India has many lessons to offer in the IT realm – and especially in the work to develop IDNs. Hearing about these lessons and experiences has helped everyone move forward and build a multilingual Internet
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IDN.IDN pushed back to 2009? / .IDN possible bidding?
Submitted by iashah on Wed, 2008-03-12 13:59.
With reference to the above comments regarding the outcomes of New Delhi's Meeting I have some reservations which I would like to mention over here.

During the week long New Delhi's meeting, we hope that very comprehensive discussion sessions were managed to define effective & quick mechanism for the creation and validity of Multilingual (Non-English) Internationalized Domain Names. But in order to conclude the result of the meeting following remarks are very disappointing for those who were expecting that policies will be finalized till mid of 2008:

1. "ICANN's board is taking no action on new domains", &
2. "IDN.IDN pushed back until 2009"

We understand that ICANN holds 3 meetings p.a., if this meeting was beneficial with reference to its contents & discussion, ICANN management should have to expand its duration or at least one or two more subsequent meeting should have to be scheduled in the same region. Because all of the participants would not be able to join next GNSO Council event in Paris, in June 08 and the decision on the opening IDN.IDN will go back onto 2010.

An other indication is referred mentioning that these are comments of from Dr Paul Twomey, ICANN's President & CEO that:

".... he does not expect ICANN to start accepting bids ......",

The point is to be noted that the English word "bids" is used which is little bit confusing for me because it has different meanings “offer” or “tender”. I need some clarification from M/s ICANN about this “is ICANN is going to plan for the bidding of new TLDs IDN and/or IDN.IDN?”

Why it is confusing?
If ICANN has planning for the bidding the new .IDN TLDs, one can expect that only richest companies (monopolist) will achieve the .IDN names. And Internet will go in the hand of monopolists. This is against the policy of transparency.

New TLDs application fee (no-refundable) in year 2000 was fixed by ICANN which was US$.50,000. (Ref: ICANN | New TLD Application Process Overview)
During the latest discussion ICANN has never indicated that how much cost will be charged for the registration of New TLD. If I am not wrong, this is very hard to justify the non-refundable fee of US$50,000/- to submit with an Application, if it is rejected. Similarly how the individuals or non-commercial organizations can pay this non-refundable fee.

So, it is necessary to discovered that either new TLDs will be issued on the basis of “first come first serve” or “intellectual property rights only” or “offering to existing registrars of other TLDs before allowing to Public?

Similarly another clarification is most important and required that if someone propose or apply for the new TLD (if he is given a chance), what are the chances this proposed name is offered first to existing registrar of other TLDs and second it is sold to higher bidder (either bidding is open to the whole world)?

However, it is suggested that the new TLD fee should not be so high, but the concurrent charges may be applied with each next 2 or 3 level domain names created with new TLD. This procedure will help to provide equal opportunity to the community of Internet world.

Imran Ahmed Shah
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Submitted by bwhhisc on Sat, 2008-02-16 14:30.
Seems that IDN.IDN use will be pushed back until 2009 based on this article (link below). Didn't ICANN press recently indicate that by mid-2008 things would be moving forward for the first few fast track IDN.IDN languages?

QUOTE FROM ARTICLE ENTITLED "NON ENGLISH DOMAINS STILL UNSETTLED"

"Weeklong discussions in India about the creation of online domain names entirely in languages other than English led to greater understanding but no major decisions, the chief executive of the Internet's key oversight agency said Friday.

At issue is a proposed "fast-track" mechanism for specific countries to get non-English suffixes — the ".com" part of Internet addresses. For example, many Internet users in China would like to see a Chinese-character equivalent of the ".cn" suffix.

"At the beginning of the week, various groups mapped out their extreme positions," said Paul Twomey, chief executive of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the U.S. group tasked with overseeing domain name issues. "By the end of the week, it became a more reasonable conversation."

Twomey said a working group may make recommendations by ICANN's next major meeting in Paris in June. ICANN's board took no action on new domains Friday as the meetings wrapped up in New Delhi.

Twomey said he does not expect ICANN to start accepting bids for specific names until the end of this year at the earliest.

END QUOTE

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h...bEDFQD8UQT8980

[Fka200]

2. "IDN.IDN pushed back until 2009"

Hilarious. IDN.IDN blows.

[alexd]

It seems as though the whole idn.idn thing just keeps getting pushed back and back. By the time it ever happens ( and if it does ) then it might just be too late to have any sort of impact.

Alex

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Originally Posted by alex

It seems as though the whole idn.idn thing just keeps getting pushed back and back. By the time it ever happens ( and if it does ) then it might just be too late to have any sort of impact.

Alex

This is what happens when you try to make any sort of decision purely by consensus.

Gathering opinions and concerns is a must, but in the end if somebody isn't able to make a decision to move things forward then this is what you get - nothing at all.

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[lipps]

I am pretty sure that the fine work by idn is why China has opted to set it up for themselves.

[GOLDENIDN.COM]

others are already working on it

Saudi Network Information Center


Dabsi

[touchring]

Originally Posted by GOLDENIDN.COM

others are already working on it

Saudi Network Information Center


Dabsi

can an egyptian use .السعودية?

[touchring]

Originally Posted by alexd

It seems as though the whole idn.idn thing just keeps getting pushed back and back. By the time it ever happens ( and if it does ) then it might just be too late to have any sort of impact.

Alex

This is good news. Introducing .idn before IE7 rolls out will only create more confusion. Status quo is better for us.

[GOLDENIDN.COM]

Touchring,

I assume only Saudis can do.

Dabsi