[governance] Is really Bulgarian Cyrillic .бг (.bg) similar to other Latin ccTLDs?

[Daniel Kalchev]

On 01.12.10 15:32, McTim wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Avri Doria<avri at acm.org>  wrote:
>> On 1 Dec 2010, at 08:02, McTim wrote:
>>
>>
>> ICANN itself didn't make this decision did it, they have a DNS
>> Stability Panel for that, no?
>>
>> And how is that not ICANN making the decision?
> I was referring to the fact that it wasn't ICANN staff making the decision.
>

The process is such, that ICANN staff has made decision that they will 
not continue the Bulgarian application evaluation, because their 
subcontractor, the DNS Stability Panel (who are pretty much anonymous, 
by the way -- very much unacceptable for such task) has indicated there 
MAY be confusion.

>> Just because ICANN outsources part of the work to a few experts does not remove the responsibility from ICANN and its staffboard.
>>
>> But one of the huge deficiencies in the new TLD processes, both g and cc fast track, is that there is no appeal from some of these outsourced entities.  But by ICANN process every decisions is eventually approved by the Board, so at the end of the day, one can probably ask for reconsideration once the Board approves or denies something it shouldn't.
> It would have to be a pretty compelling argument to make the Board
> reverse the DNS Stability Panel.
>
> I don't see it in this case, but could be wrong.
>
This issue ceased to be technical, at the moment when the ICANN staff 
has decided to act this way. The issue with the Bulgarian application is 
already pretty much political and is getting more and more attention, 
because the approach is simply wrong (this merits separate discussion, 
in fact, related to the Internet Governance issues).

Even more absurd is that, the ICANN board has never ever made their 
opinion on this case public. There is no decision of the ICANN board on 
this case, so there is no formal grounds for appeal.

It is expected that the applicant for the Bulgarian IDN, which happens 
to be the Bulgarian Government will give up. This makes things even more 
political in very undesirable for ICANN ways. By the way, the Bulgarian 
Government was almost successfully confused to think they are the party 
doing wrong, but consultation with various parties and repeated public 
pools indicated this is not the case.

Daniel
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