[governance] Is really Bulgarian Cyrillic .бг (.bg) similar to other Latin ccTLDs?

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

On reviewing the Fast Track Implementation manual, I must concede: it is ICANN, not its IANA component that appears to be at fault here.  My apologies to the good people of IANA.

I beleive that a mistaken opinion from the DNS Stability Panel, Interisle Consulting*, has been accepted without due diligence.  While I have no doubt as to Interisle's technical talent and its ability to protect DNS Stability, I am curious about it capabilities in linguistic judgements and its capabilities in the area of confusing similarity.  What I am more concerned about is the inability for an appeal to this judgement, we all make mistakes and all deserve a chance to have someone correct them.

I might point out that this lack of appeal over string similarity judgements is also a feature, or rather misfeature, of the new gTLD process.  So I expect this case is just the first of many.  Although in the new gTLD process, there is a specialist String Review Panel,  and the function is not overloaded on the DNS Stability Panel.

Avri

* Disclaimer: I am a listed associate of Interisle Consulting, though currently inactive and currently walled off from any of its ICANN activities

On 3 Nov 2011, at 08:50, Avri Doria wrote:

> John,  
> 
> I thought this was a Fast Track process managed by IANA.  and that it is IANA that gets the recommendation from the Panel and make the determination on whether to proceed or not.
> 
> I need to go back and check the process details, but I did not think there was any actual ICANN-that-is-not-IANA processing in this decision.  That is what makes it so hard to deal with by anyone as it occurs in the protected core of IANA.
> 
> avri
> 
> On 2 Nov 2011, at 14:09, John Curran wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 2, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Avri Doria wrote:
>> 
>>> IANA certainly made a decision in favor of Brazil and to the detriment of Bulgaria.
>> 
>> Avri - 
>> 
>> I do not believe that "IANA" (either in the classic IAB use 
>> of the term, or formal use per IANA Function Contract) was 
>> involved in this decision.   I believe that you meant either 
>> "ICANN" or "ICANN DNS Stability Panel" given the context.
>> 
>> FYI,
>> /John
> 
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