[council] Draft agenda for IDN workshop II with focus on the African region

["Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello All,

Attached is a draft agenda being prepared by ICANN for an IDN workshop at the 
Cape Town meeting.  Please forward suggestions to Tina Dam at ICANN.

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin


Workshop: Internationalized Domain Name
Wednesday, 1 December 2004
Cape Town, South Africa

In General

The IDN Workshop II will be a follow-up on the previous workshop held on 21 
July 2004 in
 Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia. This previous workshop contained a 4 hour tutorial 
that 
addressed the basic issues necessary for a better understanding of the IDN 
topic. 
Participants to the IDN Workshop II, in Cape Town, are recommended to review 
the 
material presented in this tutorial, as such comprehensive level of 
introduction 
to IDN issues will not be part of the IDN Workshop II.

§       Copies of the presentations provided in the initial workshop in Kuala 
Lumpur can 
be viewed here: 
http://www.icann.org/meetings/kualalumpur/idn-workshop-08jul04.htm

§       Video archives of the presentations can be viewed here: 
http://www.icann.org/meetings/kualalumpur/video.htm 


The IDN workshop II will be based on knowledge sharing, opinions and 
experiences, and will focus on


Agenda

Welcome to the IDN Workshop II
§       By: Paul Twomey, President and CEO, ICANN

General Introduction 

Presentations: IDN development within African Languages
§       Adama Samassekou (African Language Institute)

§       Lyndall Shope Mafole (DOC-South Africa)

§       Madame Beiji (Tunisa, testing implementation of IDN in ccTLD)

§       .tn (IDN testbed)

§       Francophonie (Unicode)

Plenary I: Application Provider Development

Plenary II:  IDN Policy Issues and Decision-making Processes
§       Moderator: Chair, Presidents IDN Advisory Committee