[council] Internationalized TLD Policy

["Michael D. Palage" <michael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Council Members:

Given the topic of discussion today regarding IDN TLD policy, I thought
the council might find the following excerpt from the proposed ITU
guidelines in connection with .INT rather interesting, see
http://www.itu.int/md/meetingdoc.asp?type=mitems&lang=e&parent=T05-SG02-
051206-TD-GEN-0106 

8.2     Internationalized top-level domain name
When policies regarding internationalized top-level domain names are
established, the applicant shall have the right to register domain names
under internationalized top-level domains corresponding to the
characters "int" in Arabic, Chinese and Russian, these being the
official languages of the United Nations in which "int" is not rendered
as an IRA string, as well as other non-IRA strings corresponding to
"int" in other languages as appropriate. 

Best regards,

Michael D. Palage