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A brief reminder: The extended comment period in response to the WHOIS Task Force’s final report is about to run out. So far, only two individuals have made use of the opportuntiy to comment. Meanwhile, preparations are going on for the “implementation committee” which will consist of a considerable number of registrar (and registry, I suppose) representatives and a few task force members from “user” constituencies.

Congratulations to ICANNwatch: They have moved their entire system to Slash, and it even seems to work. Let’s hope that the moderation mechanisms built into the new software help to improve the style of discussions there.

Bret has the scoop, and Ross provides the commentary you should read.

PIR, .org’s new registry, is asking for nominations for an advisory council. Nominations must be submitted before 1 February 2003. The council’s members will be selected by PIR’s board of directors, and announced on March 1, 2003.

The DNSO is re-opening the opportunity for comments on the WHOIS Task Force’s report. Comments can be sent to comments-whois@dnso.org. The archive is here.

The presentation I used for my WHOIS briefing during the at-large session in Amsterdam a week ago is available here.

John Udell reports about voice indexing at infoworld (via Scripting News). Why I’m linking to this from here? Once this takes off and becomes available at a reasonable price, it’ll be an invaluable tool for the telephone conference loving parts of the ICANN community. Right now, you either have mp3 files you don’t have the time to listen to (and can’t search), or you have transcripts which may frequently be (1) hard to comprehend and (2) unsearchable because the transcriber didn’t get the important key words right.

Some ICANN-related snapshots (not high quality, but at least something ;-): conference hotel in Shanghai; the Board in Amsterdam; Alejandro presenting the transition article; Amadeu presenting his concerns with the Nominating Committee.

To those at-large folks currently in Amsterdam: The board is about to finish early. We expect to meet at 09:00 in Saturn room, as opposed to at 13:00. (Update: The board just inserted a break, so 09:00 is too early. Still, expect that we will meet within the next hour or so.)

Katoh-san reading the proposed IDN resolution. (IDN implementation committee; extending the committee’s lifetime.) Amadeu wants experts in comparative linguistics added to implementation committee since that’s where the real problems are. Agreement from Katoh-san. Unanimously approved.