[governance] ICANN declined Bulgarian IDN fast-track

[jefsey]

At 15:20 30/05/2010, Adam Peake wrote:
>how would .бг be confusing when the second/third levels would also 
>be Cyrillic?
>Will be interesting to hear all sides of this during the Brussels 
>ICANN meeting.

Started http://iucg.org/wiki/Talk:Sharikov:_Cyrilic_IDN_Registrations
based upon Sharikov I_D and the comments I sent.
Best
jfc



>Adam
>
>
>
>On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 6:00 AM,  <krum.jonev at dir.bg> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > .бг 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.
> >
> > 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 .бгр (first association 
> is Belgrade,
> > not Bulgaria), .бул (first association is "bull") and 
> .българия (which is
> > ridiculously long for a tld).
> >
> > 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 
> .бг, its better
> > for Bulgaria not to have an IDN ccTLD at all.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Krum
> >
> > On Fri, 28 May 2010 23:28:46 +0300
> >  Yrjö Länsipuro <yrjo_lansipuro at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >> Would there be another meaningful Cyrillic string that would stand for
> >> Bulgaria? 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)
> >> Best Yrjö Länsipuro
> >>
> >>
> >>> From: krum.jonev at dir.bg
> >>> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> >>> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 20:09:24 +0200
> >>> Subject: [governance] ICANN declined Bulgarian IDN fast-track request
> >>>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I am new to this list, but I would like to bring to your attention an
> >>> issue that recently appeared in Bulgaria.
> >>>
> >>> The Ministry of Transport, IT and Communications announced that ICANN has
> >>> declined the Bulgarian application in the new IDN ccTLD 
> fast-track process,
> >>> as the proposed string .бг looked too much like the existing 
> ccTLD of Brazil
> >>> (.br).
> >>>
> >>> However, the people in Bulgaria that are in favor of introducing an IDN
> >>> ccTLD are practically mad of this decision. A few user groups 
> sent protest
> >>> letters to the Ministry, advising them to appeal the ICANN`s decision.
> >>> Others just sit and doesn't know what to do.
> >>>
> >>> Therefore, I am looking for your opinion on those questions - do you
> >>> think that the string .бг "presents an unacceptably high risk of user
> >>> confusion" with .br (as said in ICANN reply); and does Bulgaria have any
> >>> chance if decides to appeal, as this is the desire of the majority of the
> >>> Internet community? There were even two proposals of imposing a 
> requirement
> >>> for the IDN ccTLD registry, to allow only registration of 
> domain names that
> >>> contain an unique Cyrillic letter - in this way, all 
> similarities would be
> >>> avoided.
> >>>
> >>> Thank you in advance for you time.
> >>>
> >>> Kind regards,
> >>> Krum Jonev
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