[governance] ICANN declined Bulgarian IDN fast-track

[krum.jonev at dir.bg]

Dear Mr. Kleinwächter,

People in Bulgaria want to see the government reaction - they dont 
want them to be passive and give up without at least an attempt for 
appeal. As an example is cited the denial of the European Central Bank 
to agree that the Bulgarian Euro banknotes to be known as ЕВРО (EVRO) 
as it should be in Bulgarian, and not as ЕУРО (EURO). After an appeal, 
the ECB agreed that the text will be like the government wanted. So 
people think the same may happen with the fast-track application if we 
make the government to appeal.

The result from the string evaluation uses language as "we expect", 
"likelihood", "default presumption of confusability to which 
exceptions may be made in specific cases", "might", which seems 
unappropriate for such important decisions. Also, the result doesnt 
show any examples or tests for the confusion. Since the full letter 
will be made public around June 10, I will ask someone from the 
registry applicants to publish it here by then.

And finally, nobody will be stubborn if the outcome of the discussion 
(appeal) shows that .бг can not be used as an IDN ccTLD.

Regards,
Krum

On Sat, 29 May 2010 10:54:44 +0200
  "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" 
<wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de> wrote:
> 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
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> 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
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