[governance] ICANN declined Bulgarian IDN fast-track request

[Lee W McKnight]

Re appeal process or lack thereof:  if there are no rules, then however you play the game must be fair.

And while partial to .br for many reasons, I can't imagine why people or machines would confuse b with cyryllic script regularly. 

 In fact it would seem o be a rather low probability action for either people or machines to get the 2 confused.

So my 2 cents: go for it.

Lee
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From: Milton L Mueller [mueller at syr.edu]
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 5:34 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; 'krum.jonev at dir.bg'
Subject: RE: [governance] ICANN declined Bulgarian IDN fast-track request

> -----Original Message-----
>
> Therefore, I am looking for your opinion on those questions - do you
> think that the string .бг "presents an unacceptably high risk of user
> confusion" with .br

No. I don't have any trouble distinguishing between a 6 and a b.

> and does Bulgaria have
> any chance if decides to appeal, as this is the desire of the majority
> of the Internet community?

ICANN has no formal accountability mechanisms. This is a problem for all of us, not just you.
However, if by appeal, you mean, "Can I get my government and a bunch of other powerful people to make enough noise to scare ICANN into changing its decision, it is possible. But that is about the only option you have.

> There were even two proposals of imposing a
> requirement for the IDN ccTLD registry, to allow only registration of
> domain names that contain an unique Cyrillic letter - in this way, all
> similarities would be avoided.

Some
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