IDN Day today at ICANN. Full day of sessions, lots of information. Meetings started at 8:30am, went through 7:45pm.

Few people who sat through every session through the day (other than ICANN's Tina Dam, the organizer).

I missed today morning's IDN Training session presented by John Klensin. I spoke to a few of the people who were there.

They semed to walk away with one (or more) of these observations about the morning session:
1. IDNs are COMPLEX
2. It takes a long, long time to understand
3. No/few "one-size-fits-all" rules
4. If you are a native English speaker, it's "boring" [the primary reason to be interested then is monetary, or similar]
5. If you are not technical, you get lost in the amount of detail that's thrown at you.

KL facilities are awesome -- the hotel is incredibly good in terms of infrastructure - there are lots of conference rooms, wireless works, rooms have high speed internet ... this is the best ICANN conference hotel to date.

After downing a cup of excellent tea and snacks, I rejoined the afternoon IDN session around 3pm -- when folks from KRNIC were presenting.

.KR Hangeul experience
Kang Ahngu from KRNIC presented on the launch of the .KR name. Given the high internet penetration there, they have had reasonable success selling IDN KR names.

One of the things I've heard of is a conflict between Netpia's client plugin and VeriSign's... wonder if Netpia will cover it.

Keywords in the DNS
Kangsik Cheon, COO from Netpia, Korea presented on keywords. Amazing statistics - they have sold a boatload of keywords (hundreds of thousands) ... they said that even the President of Korea finished his last TV speech with "type in my name in your browser"...

I'll write more later on the rest of the afternoon sessions. Getting ready to go to a meeting.