[gnso-idng] motion for IDNG WG formation

["Edmon Chung" <edmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Everyone,

Below is a first stab at a possible motion to go with the IDNG charter.  Please 
take a look and make suggestions.

Edmon


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WHEREAS:

The ICANN community has been discussing issues related to IDN and IDN TLDs 
since 2000, and the ICANN board as early as September 2000 recognized "that it 
is important that the Internet evolve to be more accessible to those who do not 
use the ASCII character set";

There is expressed demand from the community, especially from language 
communities around the world who do not use English or a Latin based script as 
a primary language, including the CJK (Chinese Japanese Korean) communities and 
the right-to-left directional script communities (e.g. Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, 
etc.), for advancing the introduction of Internationalized Top-Level Domains 
(IDN TLDs);

GNSO IDN WG successfully completed its outcomes report in March 2007 and the 
GNSO Council approved the incorporation of its findings in the GNSO Final 
Report on the Introduction of New gTLDs in September 2007, describing policy 
requirements for the introduction of IDN gTLDs;

The community observes the successful development of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track 
based on the IDNC WG recommendations, and the ongoing progress for the 
Implementation of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process;

The implementation of the New gTLD process is ongoing and the schedule and 
development of the implementation should continue;

GNSO Council had made comments in response to the ccNSO-GAC Issues Report on 
IDN Issues, as well as in its comments on the IDNC WG Final Report expressed 
that “the introduction of IDN gTLDs or IDN ccTLDs should not be delayed because 
of lack of readiness of one category, but if they are not introduced at the 
same time, steps should be taken so that neither category is advantaged or 
disadvantaged, and procedures should be developed to avoid possible conflicts”;

GNSO Council made a resolution in January 2009 to assert that “the GNSO Council 
strongly believes that neither the New gTLD or ccTLD fast track process should 
result in IDN TLDs in the root before the other unless both the GNSO and ccNSO 
so agree”;

An IDN gTLD Fast Track, if successfully implemented, could be introduced in 
close proximity with the IDN ccTLD Fast Track in the case that the New gTLD 
process is further delayed, and could address the concerns expressed by the 
GNSO Council regarding possible conflicts if IDN gTLDs and IDN ccTLDs are not 
introduced at the same time.


RESOLVED:

To recommend to the ICANN Board that an IDNG WG (Internationalized Generic 
Top-Level Domain Working Group) be formed under the Proposed Charter for the 
IDNG Working Group (IDNG WG).