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

[Deirdre Williams]

Which is what I meant by "has anyone asked us?"
It is probably no longer politically correct to describe an argument as
"jesuitical", but prevaricating, dissembling and equivocating still work.
As someone else said earlier - if there is a technical issue then it
becomes ICANN's responsibility to work towards its resolution. Human error
has to be left with humans.
The computer is dealing with a pattern of on and off - 0 and 1. That
pattern must be unique otherwise the thing won't work. If I am not paying
attention and click on the wrong link then that becomes my problem, as well
as if I don't read the signs properly when driving and turn down the wrong
road.
If the strings "behind" .$% and .@& are the same, that is ICANN's (IANA's)
function, that is what the institutions were set up for, and we rely on
them to fix it
Deirdre

On 9 November 2011 05:10, Daniel Kalchev <daniel at digsys.bg> wrote:

>
>
> On 08.11.11 14:44, Adam Peake wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm guessing (a technically ignorant guess) that for a Bulgarian IDN
>> ccTLD, registrars should be able to recognize if the string someone was
>> trying to register was Cyrillic or not. So, for example, anything that
>> contained ascii could automatically be rejected. Not correct? Not eyes that
>> recognize, but software.
>>
>
> Your guessing is correct. But... :)
>
> It is not computers that may be confused. For computers, these are utterly
> different strings. In fact, for a computer, any string, no matter how
> 'similar' someone claims it to be, as long as it has even a single
> different bit - is different. period.
>
> Now, about humans... I have been discussing this with a lot of people all
> the way since this saga began. Human brain works in such a way, that humans
> do not recognize individual letters, nor they care of their similarity to
> any other individual letter. Humans recognize words. Now, before someone
> jumps in to say domain names are not words (*) just hold on a bit.
>
> There is this famous English saying "it all looks greek to me" (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Greek_to_me<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_to_me>
> )
> It says it all.
>
> It is not only Cyrillic using users that will immediately recognize any
> text containing Cyrillic or ASCII as different, but also the typical
> America will too. They may not know that this is Cyrillic or Greek, but
> they will know it is not ASCII, or rather it is "strange characters". Or in
> our context: oh, this is one of those funny IDN domains.
>
>
>
>> So I am guessing it would be possible to ensure no ascii string could be
>> registered under IDN .BG, and if that were so then the chance of having a
>> confusing string under either .BR or IDN .BG would be remote.
>>
>>
> It is not only possible. It is certain that there will be no ASCII
> sub-domains under .бг
>
> Daniel
>
>
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