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Re: [ga] Governments and Country-Code Managers' Interest in the Fast TrackProcess
- To: Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>, Ga <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [ga] Governments and Country-Code Managers' Interest in the Fast TrackProcess
- From: "Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:03:20 -0800
Glen and all,
Given the responses, and lack there of as well, I view this process
to have been an relitive failure, or it's design was not very conducive
to broad participation and/or interest, meaning that the criterion of
the process were and are, not very inclusive.
Glen de Saint Géry wrote:
> [To: council[at]gnso.icann.org; liaison6c[at]gnso.icann.org]
>
> [To: ga[at]gnso.icann.org; announce[at]gnso.icann.org]
>
> [To: regional-liaisons[at]icann.org]
>
> Governments and Country-Code Managers' Interest in the Fast Track
> Process
>
> 10 February 2009
>
> Last year, ICANN sent letters to countries and territories informing
> them about the Fast Track process ââ?¬â?? where a limited number of
> internationalized domain names will be added to the Internet ââ?¬â??
> and asked them to indicate their level of interest. This is an update
> on that process.
>
> A total of 252 letters were sent to national governments, and copied
> to country code top-level domain managers. So far we have received 74
> responses and a small number of respondents requested confidentiality.
>
> Out of these (not counting confidential requests), 31 said they were
> interested in participating in the Fast Track process, representing a
> total of 15 different languages. The remaining expressed they were not
> interested in participating at this time or indicated that they would
> not be eligible to obtain an IDN ccTLD under the process. (It should
> be noted that it is not a requirement to reply to the letter in order
> for a country or territory to take participation in the Fast Track
> process.)
>
> Below this announcement is an updated overview of all non-confidential
> responses to date.
>
> The actual strings that the respondents are interested in obtaining
> have not been duplicated below but they can be seen by clicking the
> link to the PDFs for the actual replies.
>
> Receiving the information about the anticipated number of requests in
> the Fast Track Process along with the language specifics is very
> helpful in planning for implementation of the Fast Track Process.
> ICANN would like to thank those respondents for providing this
> information.
>
> If you have any questions concerning the information contained in this
> announcement please email ICANN at: idn-cctld-rfi@xxxxxxxxx
>
> Related links
>
> Sample letter sent to all governments and ccTLD registries
> http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-02oct08-en.htm
>
> Earlier announcement on responses received
> http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-01nov08-en.htm
>
> For more details about the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process:
> http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/
>
> Responses from National Government:
> Country Interest in If the IDN ccTLD string is Anticipated
obtaining and unknown, time-
IDN ccTLD is the script and languages frame for
during the known? launch
Fast Track
Process
Yes No Language Script
ANGUILLA x English ASCII Codes
ARMENIA x
BARBADOS x
BHUTAN x 1-year
BOLIVIA x Spanish 1/2-year
BRASIL x
BULGARIA x Bulgarian Cyrillic mid-2009
CAYMAN ISLANDS x
DENMARK x
EGYPT x Arabic Arabic 6-months
FINLAND x
GREECE x Greek Greek
JAPAN x about 1-year
JORDAN x 1/2-year; by
Q1 2009
KOREA (REP. x Korean Hangeul 6-months -
OF) 1-year
LAO P.D.R. x Laotian mid-2010
LIECHTENSTEIN x
LITHUANIA x
NETHERLANDS x
NORWAY x
MEXICO x Spanish Latin
MONGOLIA x Mongolian 3-months
MOROCCO x Arabic Arabic 18-months
NEW ZEALAND x
NIUE x
PAKISTAN x
PITCAIRN x
RUSSIAN x Russian Cyrillic ready
FEDERATION
SAUDI ARABIA x
SINGAPORE x Chinese,
Malay,
Tamil
SLOVAK x
REPUBLIC
SWEDEN x Yiddish ready
TONGA x Tongan Roman
TUNISIA x Arabic 1/2-year
TURKEY x Turkish Latin 6-months
w/extensions
UNITED ARAB x 2nd half of
EMIRATES '09
UNITED STATES x
>
> Responses from ccTLD Operators:
> Country Interest in If the IDN ccTLD string is Anticipated
obtaining and unknown, timeframe for
IDN ccTLD is the script and languages launch
during the known?
Fast Track
Process
Yes No Language Script
ALGERIA x
ANDORRA x Catalan
ARMENIA x
AUSTRIA x German ASCII 2-years
BRASIL x
BULGARIA x Bulgarian Cyrillic immediately
CHILE x
CHINA x
COSTA RICA x
CROATIA x
CZECH x
REPUBLIC
GUADELOUPE x
IRAN, ISLAMIC x Persian(Farsi) ready
REPUBLIC OF
ISRAEL x Hebrew up to
6-months
KENYA x English Latin
LIBYAN ARAB x 1-year
JAMAHIRIYA
LITHUANIA x
LUXEMBOURG x
MONGOLIA x Mongolian 3-months
NETHERLANDS x
NEW ZEALAND x
PANAMA x
ROMANIA x Romanian Latin N/A
RUSSIAN x Russian end 2008
FEDERATION
SRI LANKA x Sinhala, Tamil Sinhala, Dec '08
Tamil
SWEDEN x Yiddish ready
SYRIAN ARAB x Arabic Arabic 6-months
REPUBLIC
THAILAND x Thai 6-12 months
TUNISIA x Arabic 1/2-year
>
> Glen de Saint G�©ry
>
> GNSO Secretariat
>
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>
> http://gnso.icann.org
>
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