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

Deirdre Williams williams.deirdre at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 07:50:15 EST 2011


It is often claimed that one of the great riches of the Internet is its
diversity and potential for inclusion. Do we really believe that? Perhaps
the time has come to stand up and be counted on that issue. Believing in
diversity and inclusion means supporting for other people what you would
like to have for yourself, even if that thing is of no particular benefit
to you.
ICANN's public face advertises diversity and inclusion.
ICANN claims to be concerned with facilitation, rather than being concerned
with control.
Facilitation means that you work hard to make things happen unless you can
show a cogent reason why the thing happening would be unwise or unsafe.
Control means that you stop things from happening unless you, or someone
else, can find a cogent reason that the thing should occur.
If you have taken on responsibility for acting for the world then you need
to demonstrate an ability to put yourself into the mind-set of each
constituent part and consider the issues from their perspective as well.

Deirdre

2011/11/10 Louis Pouzin (well) <pouzin at well.com>

>
> 2011/11/9 Daniel Kalchev <daniel at digsys.bg>
>
>>
>> > However, for people in Bulgaria, the only reason to request .бг is to
>> be able to write everything in Cyrillic.
>>
>
> Indeed, a dire need. Presumably for Bulgarians  *СОВЕТ.бг**  *is
> perfectly clear,
>
> while *COBET.bg*  and  *СОВЕТ.bg*  look *"confusingly identical"*.
>
> (N.B. for ascians: COBET.bg  is cyrillic.ascii,  while  COBET.bg  is
> ascii.ascii.)
>
> > We have been discussing a lot of options about this, including different
>> pronunciation of the Cyrillic and ASCII 'bg' -- but I do not believe these
>> belong to this list and in any case, .бг is still an project with undefined
>> future and timeframe. We know only one thing about it: it will happen.
>>
>
> I would guess it already happened in some root in Bulgaria. Anyway, it did
> happen somewhere.
> By adding 78.47.115.194 on top of one's DNS list, the page *
> правителство.бг* pops up in a browser.
> But this is out of ICANN walled garden.
>
>
>
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