RE: [council] Draft discussion paper on IDN policy issues

["Olof Nordling" <olof.nordling@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Sophia,

Thanks for your comments! Rest assured, the discussion paper was intended to
be just that, a discussion paper. The next step will be the Issues Report,
based on the discussions in Wellington. 

You raise some interesting points and I, for one, would appreciate if you
could elaborate on what you mean by "linguistic permission" in your item 1.
Also, your statements in 2 puzzle me somewhat - isn't there a contradiction
between your first and second sentence (or am I just too jet-lagged still)?

Very best regards

Olof 

 

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From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Sophia B
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 8:08 AM
To: Olof Nordling
Cc: GNSO Council
Subject: Re: [council] Draft discussion paper on IDN policy issues

 

Dear Olof,

 

Thanks for sharing paper below.  Since these paper came out after the GNSO
polciy discussion over IDNs, I presume that we will be adding the points
that Bruce captured from us in the meeting.   I have reviewed the document
and here is my input thus far. 

 

I have a couple of suggestion for you/us to think about.  I belive these two
points are not  covered by the document either in question or in statement
form, in the format you have layed out: 

 

1- If a single existing registry gets 20 languages - are they going to hire
people in each language and have an office in each language country, i.e.
hire tens of peoples and open offices and deal with getting linguistic
permission of allowed names and allowed cultural rules in each country?
Certainly, if there is an error in the language and if it ignores the local
government's views of what names are allowed, etc. - a global policy across
all languages and all countries set by a single manager working at a global
registry may not be politically and culturally sensitive.

2- I can only see the script selection to be or should be only ONE script
throughout a full domain names.  I am not sure of NO domain name with more
than one script - does make logical sense and may even cause endless grief.
I am hoping the IDN guidelines will not advocate this.

 

I would suggest that we consider  these two significant policy matters in
the IDN discussion paper below.   Additionally, I see the paper to be a live
document, so I hope to see an updated one soon. 

 

If there is anything I can clarify, please feel free to get back to me.

 

Kind regards,

Sophia


 

On 25/03/06, Olof Nordling <olof.nordling@xxxxxxxxx > wrote: 

Dear councilors,

Attached please find a draft discussion paper on IDN policy issues, as just
announced by Bruce at the meeting on new gTLDs.

Best regards

Olof