Interfax China Article: ICANN to launch trial testing of IDNs for Top Level Domains in the third quarter of 2006.

A quote: "'The preparation for the testing is already underway, and it will be a testing on the top of the root,' said Twomey. 'We are presently moving to introduce the IDNs of TLD, and are much closer to the end for the answer.'"

Go ahead readers, dig around here in the ICANN IDN pages and see if you can point me to the place where ICANN talks about what it's doing....