Re: [ga] On Its Way: One of the Biggest Changes to the Internet

[JFC Morfin <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 21:55 13/10/2007, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi wrote:
> Dear All,
> who chooses the spelling of the IDN TLD ? i noticed the Arabic 
> version is misspelled  !
1. The (internationalised) IDN are centraly decided, at the time 
being by ICANN which is also acting as IANA, granted the mission by 
the NTIA to managed numbers, names, and parameters (up to now 
parameters where by IETF). The largest IANA bases are the ccTLD 
Tables and in coming months the ISO 639-3 related BCP47 language 
subtags registries managed by the ietf-languages@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
mailing list (Harald Alvestrand is now a BoD Member) - and in two 
years time the extension to Debbie's ISO 639-6 list (probably 30.000 
linguistic entitites). The ICANN community is to decide about its 
"IDN 3166" list (probably to be discussed duing the CLOSED sessions 
of GAC) if the IDNccTLDs to be sold to ccTLDs - if there is no other 
list adopted bt the users.
2. the political (UNESCO, ITU, MINC, MLTF, MAAYA, WSIS, IGF, ISO 
trend/demand is for multilingualisation). By essence, 
(multilingualised) MLccTLD should use the spelling decided by their 
national standardization body as lingual equivalents to the ISO 3166 
codes in the languages normalized by ISO 3166-1:2006. The ICANN 
position, affirmed during the ISO/BSI/AFNOR/MLTF June 8, 2007 
meeting, is the one above: ICANN will follow the market orientation. 
One may therefore expect that, past this current test, ccTLD Managers 
will harmonize with their national legal normalisation body. The ISO 
3166-1:2006 paradigm which leads to this has only formally been 
confirmed two days ago by the lack of support to the 
internationalisation NWIP presented by the BSI to support the current 
internationalisation approach.
The question you raises is therefore to be addressed to the Kuwait's 
Standardisation Agency and to ask them when they intend to publish 
their Kuwait's official Arabic version of ISO 3166. You will note 
that this is valid (along the WTO TBT rules) for every other MLccTLD 
in arabic script.
jfc