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<font face="Candara">Dear Sarmad,<br>
<br>
ICANN staff has forwarded a request sent by you on behalf of
TF-AIDN for interaction with the Integration Panel at the upcoming
TF-AIDN meeting at Istanbul.<br>
<br>
We have discussed this among the Integration Panel members and
with staff and we do not quite know how best to respond to this
request.<br>
<br>
For one, some of our members are absent this week and not
reachable for discussion. Others are not available during the
dates of your meeting. The Integration Panel also has its own F2F
meeting scheduled the weekend before in Los Angeles, making for
rather difficult travel schedule even for those members who would
otherwise be available.<br>
<br>
Your request mentioned that TF-AIDN felt that expertise in "Arabic
and DNS" would be useful, but the material forwarded to us by
staff did not contain any further specifics on the issues to be
covered or the objectives that you would like to achieve by such a
meeting.<br>
<br>
By its nature, the expert members of the Integration Panel were
selected to have expertise that is broadly applicable across all
scripts; as is commensurate with the role of panel in integrating
the many LGRs produced by local Generation Panels, whose members
encompass individuals with strong linguistic background and
expertise in the subject script.<br>
<br>
For specific Arabic expertise, we can recommend </font><font
face="Candara">Tom Milo </font><font face="Candara">as advisor.
The integration panel has used him as advisor on Arabic matters;
his expertise as designer of Arabic typesetting and font
technology, we found, gives him a uniquely valuable perspective.
(If he were to attend it would be as advisor to the GP and not as
representative of the IP.)<br>
<br>
As for DNS expertise, it would help us if we could better
understand the likely concerns and issues you expect to resolve in
the session.<br>
<br>
A./<br>
<br>
Asmus Freytag<br>
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