[governance] ICANN declined Bulgarian IDN fast-track request

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

Interseting note, and I am alway game for people who want to do away with the " diktat of the US govt ".  reminds me of the good times in the 60's.

One correction:  

> You would save extravagant fees. 

I think ccTLDs get it all for free or at most for a voluntary contribution.  they do occupy a privileged position in the ICANN family.

a.

On 29 May 2010, at 16:29, Louis Pouzin wrote:

> 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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