Internationalized Domain Names Working Group

[Carlos Afonso]

This means you are in, right? Great!

Are you coming to Sampa?

fraternal regards

--c.a.

Norbert Klein wrote:
> Dear NCUC Friends,
> especially:
> Dear NCUC-GNSO Friends,
>
> I would like to let you know that I expressed my interest to participate
> in the IDN-WG of ICANN (and why), and the response I got from the GNSO
> Council chairperson.
>
>
> Norbert Klein
>
> =
>
>
>
>     Hello Norbert,
>
>     As a member of the non-commercial constituency you are entitled to join,
>     as confirmed by the Council meeting today. Glen please add Norbert to
>     the mailing list, and list of members.
>
>     As you are joining after the process for electing a chair has started,
>     you will not be included in the current vote.
>
>     Your participation and expertise in this area will be most welcomed.
>
>     Regards,
>     Bruce Tonkin
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *From:* Norbert Klein [mailto:nhklein at gmx.net]
>     *Sent:* Friday, 17 November 2006 4:56 AM
>     *To:* Bruce Tonkin; GNSO.SECRETARIAT at GNSO.ICANN.ORG
>     *Subject:* Expression of Interest to Join the Proposed charter for GNSO
>     IDN working Group
>
>     Dear Glen,
>     Dear Bruce,
>
>     though I look forward to be online for the next GNSO teleconference
>     in an hour or so (the rainy season is over in Cambodia, and that
>     means also that the Internet is more stable with less
>     rain-degradation of the satellite traffic), I would like to express
>     my interest in joining the IDN Working Group for which you shared
>     the proposed charter.
>
>     After I had established the first connection to the Internet from
>     Cambodia in 1994 and created (and administered for some years) the
>     ccTLD .kh for Cambodia, I was strongly involved in the UNICODE
>     codification of the Khmer script, and then - during the last two
>     years - in a NGO-government cooperative approach, in the creation of
>     Khmer language software and its promotion all over the country.
>
>     It is natural that I have been looking, as a next step to be taken,
>     into IDN for the Cambodian context.
>
>
>     All these past efforts were difficult in different degrees because
>     of the fact that Cambodia is an economically poor country, and has a
>     scarcity of trained human resources in many fields. Having been in
>     contact with people in other countries of Asia - especially also
>     from smaller countries - I got the impression that we share some
>     similar systemic and structural difficulties.
>
>     My interest in joining the IDN working group is therefore not only
>     Cambodia oriented, but I think I could also represent some of the
>     general concerns of the "small" countries in a context which is -
>     naturally and understandably - dominated to quite some extent by
>     technical experts, which hardly exist in our environment. But all
>     the more it is important to consider the practical implications for
>     small countries or language and script groups, which are affected -
>     or disregarded - while the Internet tries to move toward a situation
>     described in the first paragraph of the Geneva WSIS Declaration of
>     Principles:
>
>     = = =
>     Our Common Vision of the Information Society
>     1.We, the representatives of the peoples of the world, assembled in
>     Geneva from 10-12 December 2003 for the first phase of the World
>     Summit on the Information Society, declare our common desire and
>     commitment to build a people-centered, inclusive and
>     development-oriented Information Society, *where everyone can
>     create, access, utilize and share information and knowledge,
>     enabling individuals, communities and peoples to achieve their full
>     potential in promoting their sustainable development and improving
>     their quality of life,* premised on the purposes and principles of
>     the Charter of the United Nations and respecting fully and upholding
>     the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
>     = = =
>
>
>     Please let me know what I have to do so that I can become a full
>     member of the IDN working group.
>
>
>     Norbert
>
>