Re: [ga] On Its Way: One of the Biggest Changes to the Internet
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html style="direction: ltr;"> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body style="direction: ltr;" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">JFC Morfin wrote, On 10/14/2007 12:56 AM:<br> </p> <blockquote cite="mid:md5:FFFFFFF33FFFFFFF86FFFFFFB1FFFFFF805C745AFFFF" type="cite">At 21:55 13/10/2007, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite="">Dear All,<br> who chooses the spelling of the IDN TLD ? i noticed the Arabic version is misspelled !<br> </blockquote> <br> 1. The (<b>internationalised</b>) 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 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ietf-languages@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";>ietf-languages@xxxxxxxxxxxxx</a> 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.<br> <br> 2. the political (UNESCO, ITU, MINC, MLTF, MAAYA, WSIS, IGF, ISO trend/demand is for <b>multilingualisation</b>). 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> jfc<br> <br> </blockquote> what about the other 22 arabic countries out there?<br> </body> </html> Attachment:
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