[Ctn-crosscom] Notes taken during the session of the CWG-UCTN, on Monday 2 May at 20:00 UTC

[Jaap Akkerhuis]

 Joke Braeken writes:

One of the action items:

 >  2. Heather repeated the question whether there are any suggestions
 >     as to who we like to invite.  So far, we came up
 >     with: ICANN Board (at least 1 member), ICANN Legal, the
 >     leadership of subsequent procedures PDP.  The WG members were
 >     invited to send further suggestions to the WG mailing list, before
 >     the end of this week.

SSAC is meeting as well. There are two subject which has the attention
of SSAC which might be relevant:

(a) About naming and especially TLDs in general. This is triggered
    by the "names of special use" registry discussion in the IETF but
    takes a more generic approach, looking at the various groups that
    come up with names which might be used as TLDs (IETF, ISO 3166,
    ICANN new gTLD AGB, ITU E.164 etc.); what the policies are of
    sometimes overlapping name spaces etc.

(b) IDN Harmonization. There are various groups making policies
    related to IDNs (IETF, Unicode consortium, Universal Acceptance,
    various "Public Suffix Lists (PSLs)" efforts, ICANN's label
    generation program) and not all groups have the same definition
    of what an IDN label is.

It might be beneficially to have some (informal) dialogue with SSAC
about these things.

	jaap