Fwd: Re: MINC Membership Application for NCUC

[Norbert Klein]

Checking my mail, I see I probably forgot to respond when the MINC
application came in. We have been in contact with MINC from Cambodia,
and I consider them a a possible candidate for our NCUC.

Norbert Klein

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Milton Mueller wrote:
> This is Prof. Tan's response to my question
>
>
>>>> Tan Tin Wee <tinwee at bic.nus.edu.sg> 11/17/2006 7:13:58 AM >>>
>>>>
> Dear Professor Mueller,
>
> Sorry for taking so long to get back.
> Had been overseas in India.
>
> MINC is a not-for-profit organisation which over the
> past half a decade has been formed from a wide diversity
> of members from businesses, academic institutions, research
> organisations, government agencies, for the purpose of
> promoting multilingualism on the internet in particular
> Internet names such as IDNs. We are therefore not a trade
> association by definition or by the activities we have
> been carrying out. We have involved in educating international
> organisations about IDNs, pioneering the technologies
> and advocating its deployment,
> including educating members of ICANN and the ICANN
> establishment itself and the UN, language organisations
> throughout the world. In fact, we have also been involved
> in testing of IDNs way back, which
> ICANN has finally seen fit to do likewise only recently.
> Likewise, we have researched and surveyed the community
> to discover the de facto fragmentation and recorded the
> potentially divergent locally deployed TLDs in a recently
> released report, as well as drawn the first attention to this emerging
> problem to the ITU/UNESCO meeting earlier this year.
> ICANN too has finally caught on this. THerefore, we see ourselves
> playing a key stakeholder role in pioneering IDNs (I myself
> you would have recalled being the first to deploy a working
> model of IDNs way back in 1998 and my student James Seng
> involved in chairing the IETF wg that produced the IDNA
> standard). In this regard, we have had many years of hands-on
> experience to contribute to the process and to demystify
> and even demythologise the half truths surrounding IDNs,
> IDNs at the root and IDN applications that have been
> propagated.
>
> So I believe we are fully eligible.
>
> Looking forward to your positive response.
>
> bestrgds
> tin wee
> --
> Dr Tan Tin Wee
> National University of Singapore
> tinwee at bic.nus.edu.sg
>
>