[governance] ICANN declined Bulgarian IDN fast-track request

[Louis Pouzin]

Namaste,

Using roman scripts has always been confusing. O (letter) 0 (number), I
(letter) 1 (number). Using non roman scripts adds more confusion. B (roman)
В (cyrillic), etc. Can you distinguish COM (roman) from СОМ (cyrillic) ?

« Internet is for everyone » is just a slogan when the internet is not usable in native language. We need arabic, armenian, bengali, chinese, cri,
cyrillic, ethiopic, french, greek, gujarati, farsi, hebrew, hindi, japanese, korean, latvian, malayalam, quechua, tamil, telugu, thai, tibetan, turkish,
and many more.

Of course, there are countless opportunities for confusion when mixing
languages, be it due to alphabets, pronunciation, similarities, double
meanings, or others. BAD means one thing in english and another in german.
It's confusing, isn't. Should we forbid Germans using the word BAD ?

The dispute about using .бг (.6r for ascians) as a native bulgarian ccTLD is both amusing and cheap. Amusing because similarities, ambiguities and
look-alikes are a straight consequence of mixing scripts in a single
context. Cheap because those who made that choice seem unable to admit  the
result, and furthermore hold legitimate users as troublemakers.

After all, cyrillic was first used in Bulgaria in the 9th century. The
Bulgarians know better than ICANN which abbreviation is appropriate for
their native ccTLD, provided it does not collide with another cyrillic ccTLD.
Arguments about confusion with .br are *irrelevant*. Such possible confusions are commonplace in domain names, even in a single script. So,
what's new ?

ICANN, as usual, ignores the UN WSIS Tunis agenda, which reads:

« 63. Countries should not be involved in decisions regarding another
country’s country-code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD). Their legitimate interests, as expressed and defined by each country, in diverse ways, regarding
decisions affecting their ccTLDs, need to be respected, upheld and addressed via a flexible and improved framework and mechanisms. »

Bulgarian friends ! why submit to a world monopoly imposed by a diktat of the US govt ?
What if you set up a cyrillic DNS, shared with neighbouring countries using
cyrillic. You would save extravagant fees. It would make it much simpler for cyrillic aware people to reach you, and that's a lot of people in central
Europe and Asia. Are you afraid of becoming isolated from the rest of the
world ? No point. You have a roman .bg ccTLD. That's what cyrillic unaware
people will use to reach you. Instead of being captive of the ICANN gang,
you could access two name spaces, or more ...

Go and visit: http://www.idru.org

Native languages are expanding in the internet.
ICANN is an iceberg in a warm sea.

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