AW: [governance] ICANN declined Bulgarian IDN fast-track

["Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"]

Dear List,
 
I encourage the Bulgarian friends to be more innovative and just to respect that .bg in cyrillic is confusingly similar to .br. When the Russian started to discuss their string in cyrillic, their first choice was .ru in cyrillic, which was confusingly similar to .py, the ccTLD for Paraguay. There was a strong group in the Russian Internet community arguing in favour of .ru in cyrillic as an issue of "sovereignty and pride of the national Russian community". The argument, .ru is owned by Russia and not by ICANN, was used in some heated debates. However, constructive consultations between ICANN and the Russian community led to the .rf cyrllic code (which stands for Russian Federation) and now everybody in Russia is happy to have it. Even President Medwedjew likes .rf. Probably the Bulgarians will find a nice code which allows them to keep the national pride and to accept that you should avoid to confuse users (which than often is misused by all kinds of bad guys).
 
Wolfgang
 
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Von: Norbert Klein im Auftrag von Norbert Klein
Gesendet: Sa 29.05.2010 04:23
An: governance at lists.cpsr.org; krum.jonev at dir.bg
Betreff: Re: [governance] ICANN declined Bulgarian IDN fast-track



krum.jonev at dir.bg wrote:
> .?? is the most meaningful representation (was selected with a full
> consensus between all interested parties) - and the local Internet
> community doesn`t want to give it up without at least an "appeal
> attempt" from the government.
If this is not considered to be the most important argument - what is
then the relative weight of a COUNTRY as over against a special TEAM of
ICANN, deciding for the rest of the world what is confusing and what is not?
>
> Now we are trying to make the government communicate with ICANN and
> actually do something. That`s why I wanted to ask if we should appeal
> - maybe write to ICANN ombudsman, etc. However, there isn`t any formal
> appeal process for the decisions taken in the string evaluation part.
>
> Among the proposed other options are .??? (first association is
> Belgrade, not Bulgaria), .??? (first association is "bull") and
> .???????? (which is ridiculously long for a tld).
Who made these - confusing - suggestions? Surely not those who selected
..?? in a consensus of the interested and involved.
>
> There are more and more oppinions that any other IDN ccTLD string will
> "kill the idea", and even some people say that if we can not keep .??,
> its better for Bulgaria not to have an IDN ccTLD at all.
Don't give up.
>
> Regards,
> Krum
Norbert KIein
(living in the Bulgarian Embassy in Cambodia)

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