<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div><div>On 28 May 2010, at 21:28, Yrjö Länsipuro wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Would there be another meaningful Cyrillic string that would stand for Bulgaria? After all, in many cases IDN ccTLD's are not exact translitterations of the ASCII ccTLD, since in many languages/scripts such abbreviations don't make sense. </div><div><br></div></div></span></blockquote> is .бг is less similar to .br then .бр would be?</div><div><br></div><div>User's confusion with IDN strings in general, not just with Cyrillic and ASCII,</div><div>is one of expected "by-products", as well as one of many trade-offs we have to live with.</div><div><br></div><div>Desiree</div><div>--</div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><div>Please note, too, that Russia could not have a Cyrillic translitteration of .ru, because it would have been identical with ASCII .py (Paraguay)</div><div><br></div><div>Best </div><div><br></div><div>Yrjö Länsipuro</div><div><br></div><div><br><br>> From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:krum.jonev@dir.bg">krum.jonev@dir.bg</a><br>> To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a><br>> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 20:09:24 +0200<br>> Subject: [governance] ICANN declined Bulgarian IDN fast-track request<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Hello,<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> I am new to this list, but I would like to bring to your attention an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> issue that recently appeared in Bulgaria.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> The Ministry of Transport, IT and Communications announced that ICANN<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> has declined the Bulgarian application in the new IDN ccTLD fast-track<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> process, as the proposed string .бг looked too much like the existing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> ccTLD of Brazil (.br).<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> However, the people in Bulgaria that are in favor of introducing an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> IDN ccTLD are practically mad of this decision. A few user groups sent<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> protest letters to the Ministry, advising them to appeal the ICANN`s<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> decision. Others just sit and doesn't know what to do.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Therefore, I am looking for your opinion on those questions - do you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> think that the string .бг "presents an unacceptably high risk of user<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> confusion" with .br (as said in ICANN reply); and does Bulgaria have<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> any chance if decides to appeal, as this is the desire of the majority<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> of the Internet community? There were even two proposals of imposing a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> requirement for the IDN ccTLD registry, to allow only registration of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> domain names that contain an unique Cyrillic letter - in this way, all<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> similarities would be avoided.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Thank you in advance for you time.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Kind regards,<br>> Krum Jonev<br>> ____________________________________________________________<br>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a><br>> To be removed from the list, send any message to:<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org">governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org</a><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> For all list information and functions, see:<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance">http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance</a><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Translate this email:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_t">http://translate.google.com/translate_t</a><br></div><br><hr>Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969" target="_new">Sign up now.</a>____________________________________________________________<br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a><br>To be removed from the list, send any message to:<br> <a href="mailto:governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org">governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org</a><br><br>For all list information and functions, see:<br> <a href="http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance">http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance</a><br><br>Translate this email:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_t">http://translate.google.com/translate_t</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>