[governance] ICANN declined Bulgarian IDN fast-track request

[Norbert Klein]

Yrjö Länsipuro wrote:
>
> Would there be another meaningful Cyrillic string that would stand for
> Bulgaria?
Why look for another string? It is first of all those who stand for
Bulgaria who decide what shortcode to use in the code that stands for
their country, in their script. (Unless there would be an exact double
rendering like .ru  ->  .py.)
> 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. 
>
> Please note, too, that Russia could not have a Cyrillic
> translitteration of .ru, because it would have been identical with
> ASCII .py (Paraguay)
This reference is not appropriate, though an often used irrelevant
example: ".ru" was probably made from the English word "Russia" (as a
two-letter ISO country code - like .hu stands for Hungary and not for
Magyarország in Hungarian) Russia would not have used ".py" (then an
English abbreviation in Cyrillic script - "Russia" with an "u" is anyway
different from Россия with an "o"). What was chosen in Russia is a
Cyrillic rendering of the "Russian Federation" - рф (Русский федерации).

To say that .бг is similar to .br would only be understandable if the
many ICANN reservations and exclusions for "confusingly similar" would
also include the "visually impaired" (I am - but I still see the
difference)...


Norbert Klein
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