[governance] Linguistic diversity (Was: Program for IGC at IGF

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 12:53:48PM +0200,
 Louis Pouzin <pouzin at well.com> wrote 
 a message of 1825 lines which said:

> Here attached is a programme for the "Linguistic Diversity"
> workshop.

The first sentence is already blatantly false.

> Why a workshop on Linguistic Diversity Linguistic diversity in the
> internet has been ignored till the 1st WSIS Summit in 2003. 

It is pure b...it ("connerie" in French). And it is an insult to the
people who worked, for many years, on the internationalization of the
Internet, from the techies at IETF (RFC 2070 in 1997, RFC 1766 in
1995, RFC 1652 in 1994, etc) to the content authors who put texts
online, instead of attending expensive conferences (Wikipedia is a
recent exemple but there have been many non-english content authors
before).

> The use of native languages in internet has been overlooked up until
> the WSIS prepcom meetings, which created the first opportunity for
> non english speaking countries to express their needs and
> frustrations. 

Same remark.


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