In Direct Response to the challenge issued by MINC Chairman and CEO Mr Khaled Fattal on June 28th, 2007 to the ICANN Board of Directors, the ICANN Board has unanimously resolved two NEW resolutions on IDNs.
In proposing the resolutions to the ICANN Board for a vote, ICANN board member Mr Steve Goldstein attributed these resolutions directly to Chairman Khaled Fattal challenge the day before, he states:
“I would like also to point out that this set of resolutions and the recitations, just as the previous one, does our best to incorporate the wishes expressed yesterday by Khaled Fattal in the clause that will read or reads in both of these sets.”
ICANN GAC (Government Advisory Committee) Chairman and former WSIS President (Tunis Phase World Summit on Information Society President) Mr JANIS KARKLINS stated:
“I think it is very good that the board on so short notice ( the fact that the challenge by Chairman Khaled Fattal was made only the day before) since the list of issues was presented to the board only yesterday, found the possibility to react and propose this draft resolution for adoption. We are not losing time, and that gives a very positive signal to the GAC and I believe also to the ccNSO Council, who is awaiting this signal from the board.
On this, MINC chairman Khaled Fattal made the following statement.
“I am deeply encouraged by the prompt reaction of the ICANN board to my challenge. It renews my faith and hope that the correct course to help those that need the help the most will be taken so that they can be helped first. I look forward to seeing these resolutions filter through all the technical and policy work currently underway". He added: "MINC will issue a specific Press Release on this vital matter shortly."
About MINC
Formed in 2000, MINC is the Multilingual Internet Names Consortium, aims to promote a multilingual Internet through the facilitation of research development, education and deployments of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) and other naming systems of Internet navigation. MINC’s work dates back to mid 90’s to promote the Multilingualization of the Internet, the internationalization of Internet names including but not limited to multilingual Internet domain names and keywords. Over the years, MINC has established a wide range of links with international organizations, stakeholder organizations and other processes including The United Nations, the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), ICANN, ITU, WIPO, IETF, as well as language groups such as JDNA (Japanese), CDNA (Chinese), INFITT (Tamil), Euro-LINC (European Languages), CYINC (Cyrillic), GLWG (Georgian), RLWG (Russian ) as well as The Arabic language and scripts WG (Arabic) and ULWG (Urdu). Our language groups develop their own language and variant tables, and coordinate with each other on these tables. They also discuss other IDN related issues like the development of Dispute Resolution Policies and the use of IDN in software applications. For more information about MINC, please refer to the website at http://www.minc.org or contact MINC secretariat at hvx04@nrmx.lit.
About MINC ICMC
Formed in 2006, MINC's International Coordination Mechanism Council (ICMC) aims to coordinate with all local authorities and jurisdictions and known operators of IDN TLDs in various local jurisdictions, for a an equitable multilingual Internet and information society based on mutual respect, local empowerment and the right of all people for self-E-determination as a function of their human rights.
ICMC Technical Coordination;
This MINC ICMC ad hoc committee coordinates the technical parameters involved in supporting a truly multilingual domain name system. All deployments of IDN should be Internet RFC- compliant and registered and tracked with MINC's IDN database.