[registrars] Fwd(3): [minc-announce] MINC IDN 2003 conference, Carthage, Tunisia 25-26 Oct 200

Sat Oct 11 15:35:42 UTC 2003

FYI, kindly note that MINC (Multilingual Internet Names Consortium)
will be holding its annual conference on 25 - 26 October in Carthage,
if anyone would like to attend.

Best Regards,

Mahmoud A. Lattouf
Domain Names Registration Officer
Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP)
Regional Office, Amman - Jordan
Tel: (962-6) 566 9603 ext. 1430
Fax: (962-6) 560 3743/ 718
domain.names at tagi.com
www.agip.com, www.tagi.com

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FYI, if someone interested and can make it to attend.

Regards
Charles Sha'ban
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Dear distinguished MINC members,

MINC will be holding its annual conference on the 25-26 October, in
Carthage,
Tunisia. And we will be addressing many of the important topics we
have been
working on for many years, especially in the last year, such as IDNs,
as Language tables, standardisation, IP, UDRP etc. Many of our Working
language groups from all over the world will be participating as well.

The 25th is set for MINC board and is a closed meeting. However the
26th is
the day your participation will be welcome.

MINC IDN 2003 is held back to back with the ICANN meeting, and
overlaps
with other meetings such as the ccTLD meetings for your travel
convenience.

Please RSVP ASAP If you wish to participate to me or our secretariat
at
sec at minc.org . Also if any of you wish to have the opportunity to
present to
let me know immediately as most slots for Guest speaker presentations
have already been assigned with very few left.

Apologies about the short notice.

Best regards,

Khaled Fattal
MINC Chairman & CEO

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Revision 1.1 dated 9 Oct 2003

MINC IDN Conference 2003 Carthage, Tunisia

Date: 25-26th October 2003
Venue: Khamsa Corinthia Hotel, Carthage, Tunisia

Hotel Accommodation
----------------------
Please book at the Phebus Hotel is listed among the hotels in this
URL:
http://www.tourismtunisia.com/hotels/tunis.html#carthage

Hotel Rates are reasonable starting at about US$30

Wireless Internet connectivity will be available in the meeting
rooms. Wireless Lan cards will not be provided. Please bring your own.

Visa Application:
-----------------
Participants needing Visa's in countries without a Tunisian embassy
will have to send us by Fax or scan and send the pages of theirs
passports
that include their names.

We will be able to send them an invitation letter (PDF file) and
arrange
for their visa's with the Tunisian authorities.

The local host will arrange for your visa to be prepared and
obtainable at the airport.

Please scan your Passport pages in gif or jpg or pdf and send to
cshaban at tagi.com as soon as possible who will consolidate the
data and forward it to our Hosts.

If you have an embassy in your country, the local host should also be
able to send an invitation to all the MINC participants. Please
contact
Mr Kamel Saadaoui ( saadaoui at ati.tn )

Air Travel
---------
If you intend to fly into Carthage via TunisAir, you can enjoy a 50%
discount on TunisAir flights. It covers all participants, and does
consider that everyone is an ICANN participant.
Please inform your travel agent [ICANN] and he will be able to get you
this discount (on TunisAir flights only). Other major airlines also
fly into Carthage. Please consult your travel agent.

Local Arrangement Co-ordinator, Host and Sponsor:
--------------------------------------------
Tunisian Internet Agency
Local contact: Kamel Saadaoui (saadaoui at ati.tn)

MINC Organising Committee:
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Khaled Fattal, Chairperson

MINC IDN 2003 CONFERENCE
=======================
25th October 2003
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Closed Meeting of MINC Board and Organising Committee
0930h onwards

Agenda
------
MINC Restructuring - K Fattal
MINC Membership - C Shaban
IDN Interop Testbed Update - Bill Manning
IDNConnect feedback - Paul Hoffman (telecon) and S Subbiah
IDN Language Tables Coordination - S Subbiah
MINC Election Reform Committee - C Shaban
MINC IDN 2003 in Carthage - last minute details
MINC IDN 2004 Conference in Kuala Lumpur/APRICOT - TW Tan by Telecon

26th October 2004
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Preliminary Conference Program

Opening Session
---------------
Opening Speech - Guest of Honour (tbd)
Words of Welcome - Local Organising Committee

Keynote Presentation
0900 MINC Introduction K. Fattal

0930-1045
Session 1: IDN Language Groups Presentations. Moderated by Fattal and
TW Tan
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0930 MINC IDN Language Groups Overview, History. T.W. Tan
1000 Tamil Language Working Group. S.Maniam
1015 Russian Cyrillic WG - Language tables report. S.Charikov/Alexa
1030 Georgian Language WG - Language tables report. I.Tsivadze &
      G.Kavtaradze

1045-1100 Coffee break

1100-1230
Session 1 Continued
-------------------
1100 Arabic language and script Group. (tbd by Fattal)
1115 Korean language and Hanja and Hangeul scripts (KRNIC
      representative - tbd by Dongman Lee)
1130 Other language groups (tbd)
1145 Other language groups (tbd)
      e.g, Chinese, Japanese etc
1200 General Language Table Discussions. Roundtable discussions on
      common challenges Fattal (Moderator)

1230-1330 Lunch Break

1330-1445
Session 2: IDN Interoperability and Rollout
------------
1330 World-wide IDN Deployments. - S.Subbiah
1345 MINC Persistent Inter-operability Testbed. - B. Manning
1400 IDNConnect Interoperability Testing.=A0 - Paul Hoffman
1415 General Discussion about Interoperability and Rollout of
      TLDs - Roundtable Moderator: T.W. Tan

1445-1500 Coffee Break

1500-1730
Session 3: Next steps for Language Groups
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1500 Intellectual Property Issues presented by C Shaban
1515 IDN Dispute Resolution - IDN - UDRP Moderated by K.Fattal
1530 General Discussion with Language Groups
      on Development of Prohibited word list Moderator: K. Fattal
1545 WIPO delegate/observer comments (tbd Subbiah/Fattal)
1600 Discussion on IDN in Applications (Web/Email) Moderator: S.
Subbiah
1615 Feedback/Comment session from invited observers delegates
      (to be announced shortly) Moderator K. Fattal

1645 General Discussion and Agreement on next steps
      Moderator: K. Fattal
      - Outreach to more language groups
      - Selection of TLDs and Coordination of MINC Testbed
      - IDN-UDRP and local legal considerations and
        Prohibited list development
      - IDN in Applications
      - Coordination with other groups
        e.g. UN ICT, ITU, ICANN, UN ESCWA,WIPO as well as technology
providers.
      - Other action items till next MINC meeting

1730 Announcement of MINC 2004 Conference and Closing
End

Registration:
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All MINC members are invited to participate.
Non-MINC Members are also invited to apply to the Secretariat.

Name: ____________________________
Title: (Mr / Ms / Mrs / Dr / Prof / Engr )
Email Address: __________________________
Organisation: ______________________________
Designation/Occupation: ______________________
Membership of MINC: Yes/No

Please send your registration as soon as possible.
to cshaban at tagi.com  cc. sec at minc.org with the above form duly filled.
Thank you.