It is often claimed that one of the great riches of the Internet is its diversity and potential for inclusion. Do we really believe that? Perhaps the time has come to stand up and be counted on that issue. Believing in diversity and inclusion means supporting for other people what you would like to have for yourself, even if that thing is of no particular benefit to you.<div>
ICANN's public face advertises diversity and inclusion.</div><div>ICANN claims to be concerned with facilitation, rather than being concerned with control.</div><div>Facilitation means that you work hard to make things happen unless you can show a cogent reason why the thing happening would be unwise or unsafe.</div>
<div>Control means that you stop things from happening unless you, or someone else, can find a cogent reason that the thing should occur.</div><div>If you have taken on responsibility for acting for the world then you need to demonstrate an ability to put yourself into the mind-set of each constituent part and consider the issues from their perspective as well.<br>
<br>Deirdre</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/11/10 Louis Pouzin (well) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pouzin@well.com">pouzin@well.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/11/9 Daniel Kalchev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel@digsys.bg" target="_blank">daniel@digsys.bg</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> However, for people in Bulgaria, the only reason to request .áã is to be able to write everything in Cyrillic.<br></blockquote><div><br>Indeed, a dire need. Presumably for Bulgarians <b>ÑÎÂÅÒ.áã</b><b> </b>is perfectly clear,<br>
<br>while <b>COBET.bg</b> and <b>ÑÎÂÅÒ.bg</b> look <b>"confusingly identical"</b>.<br><br>(N.B. for ascians: COBET.bg is cyrillic.ascii, while COBET.bg is ascii.ascii.)<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">
> We have been discussing a lot of options about this, including different pronunciation of the Cyrillic and ASCII 'bg' -- but I do not believe these belong to this list and in any case, .áã is still an project with undefined future and timeframe. We know only one thing about it: it will happen.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I would guess it already happened in some root in Bulgaria. Anyway, it did happen somewhere.<br>By adding 78.47.115.194 on top of one's DNS list, the page <b>ïðàâèòåëñòâî.áã</b> pops up in a browser.<br>
But this is out of ICANN walled garden.<br><br><br></div></div>
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