[governance] Comment from Bulgaria to ICANN fast-track review process

[Stoyan Danev]

Dear All,

Here is my comment to the ICANN fast-track review process.

Think it might be useful for this list.

Cheers,
Stoyan

> Dear Sirs,
>
> A few months ago the Bulgarian application under the IDN ccTLD fast-track
> program was rejected due to alleged similarity between the proposed IDN
> ccTLD string and others that exist now. The Bulgarian community has
> clearly demonstrated that selecting another string is unacceptable and if
> the proposed one is not approved, Bulgaria will remain WITHOUT an IDN
> ccTLD. This is really against the ICANN policy of making Internet
> accessible to everyone.
>
> Currently there are no re-evaluation or objection mechanism for declined
> IDN ccTLD requests. ICANN says that primary reason for this is that the
> Fast Track Process is considered an interim process, short-termed for
> those countries and territories where there is no controversy with
> implementing IDN ccTLDs.
>
> Well, the whole Bulgarian community supports the proposed string, a lot of
> international experts agreed there is no similarity between the string and
> any other existing domains!
>
> I strongly support a re-evaluation in the fast-track process for strings,
> that were rejected by the DNS Stability panel.
>
> 2. When the confusingly similar string review for the Bulgarian
> application was done by the DNS Stability panel, the Bulgarian community
> didn`t see any grounds behind the panel`s rejection! This is going way
> beyond the ICANN transparency mechanisms, as such decision does not comply
> with them.
> Moreover, rumors say the panel didn`t review the string at all - they just
> ASSUMED similarity for any IDN ccTLDs in Cyrillic or Greek with the length
> of 2 characters!!! So I don`t see any DNS Stability Panel working
> guidelines here as the ICANN announcement says - just assumptions. This is
> not right!
>
> Please see this tool, provided by the Unicode Consortium:
>
> http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/confusables.jsp?a=%D0%B1%D0%B3&r=IDNA2008
>
> There is a similarity only in the second character - the Cyrillic "G". The
> first one - "B" only looks like the digit "6".
>
> The DNS Stability panel has already approved an IDN ccTLD in the same
> situation -  the Russian .rf (.рф) -
> http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/confusables.jsp?a=%D1%80%D1%84&r=IDNA2008
>
> Where the letter "r" is similar to the Latin r, and the letter "f" is not
> similar.
>
>
> These are my thoughts under the review of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process
>
> Cheers,
> Stoyan
>
>
>
> --
> Stoyan Danev
> Freelance developer from Bulgaria
>
> Email me at: stoyan_danev at pismo.bg
>
>
>
>
>


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