Splitting the root - IDNs and ICANN

Splitting the root I'm at the ICANN meeting in Wellington, New Zealand. I guess the blog gets a lot more important to me when I'm at these meetings. So, anyway, we are in the ALAC Policy Discussion meeting. Meeting notes are here. But this article is good background on the IDN (International Domain Name) issue. What the issue is. Not what we can do about it, but why it's a problem. One of these issues is here in Bret Fausett's blog. So - there are technical issues that are being worked on - ICANN has announced a test for the IDN system. BUT - there are many many policy issues. This is where we really need to get involved.