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

[Tina Dam]

Hi Stoyan, thank you for participating in the Fast Track Review. I don't know how familiar you are with ICANN public reviews, but at the end of the comment period staff will analyze all suggestions made and provide a proposal of appropriate changes to the process, based on received comments. This will be made publicly available, and at the end the final proposals will be provided for ICANN Board considerations.

Participation in these kind of public forums is hence essential.

About your specific concern I can assure you that all requests in the fast track process are carefully evaluated against all of the established and required criteria. There are no exceptions to this. 

If you feel that the rumors you have heard are substantiated in some way then please provide me with some more details and I will investigate why someone has started such rumors and attempt to get it closed. I am in direct contact with the DNS Stability panel and can assure you that they are doing very careful analysis, separately, of each and every request.

Kind regards,

Tina Dam
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stoyan Danev [mailto:stoyan_danev at pismo.bg]
> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 10:51 AM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: [governance] Comment from Bulgaria to ICANN fast-track review
> process
> 
> 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=IDNA20
> 08
> >
> > 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=IDNA20
> 08
> >
> > 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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