[ga] [Fwd: Re: [At-Large] Bulgaria moves to register Cyrillic Internet domain]

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  FYI

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [At-Large] Bulgaria moves to register Cyrillic Internet
domain
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:45:44 -0700
From: "Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Organization: IDNS and Spokesman for INEGroup
To: Dessi Pefeva <dpefeva@xxxxxxx>, twomey@xxxxxxxxx,ICANN SSAC Dave
Piscitello <dave.piscitello@xxxxxxxxx>,Steve Crocker
<steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Julie.myers@xxxxxxx
CC: At-Large Worldwide <alac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,icann board
<icann-board@xxxxxxxxx>,icann legal <jeffrey@xxxxxxxxx>, ICANN SSAC
<ssac@xxxxxxxxx>
References: <4860D8D6.2090405@xxxxxxx>

Dessi and all,

  Lets all hope that ICANN's president insures that the Bulgarian
application for registration for the .?? (.bg in Cyrillic) that the
security considerations are well outlined and fully protect potential
users unlike isoc.bg.  See:
http://private.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=isoc.bg&token=26201232704f78371b301d8626d63019

  Further lets hope that for domain names in this new IDN for Bulgaria
meets the US standard to go into effect for PCI and credit card
transactions
is fully and properly implemented and good oversight protocols for same
are in place.
See:PCI Standard Section 6.6 Addresses Web Application Security
Section 6.6 of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard
will come into effect on June 30.  Section 6.6 requires that companies
with stored credit card or other consumer financial data install
application firewalls around all Internet-facing applications or have
all the applications' code reviewed for security flaws.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2219820/pci-standard-lacking-secerno
https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pdfs/infosupp_6_6_applicationfirewalls_codereviews.pdf



Dessi Pefeva wrote:

> I am happy to announce that the Bulgarian government has shown
> officially its intent to register the .?? (.bg in Cyrillic) domain. They
> did it in a letter, sent yesterday to ICANN's President Paul Twomey.
>
> This is due also thanks to the efforts of ISOC-Bulgaria. Bulgarian
> President, Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and the Minister of ITC are
> all members of ISOC. They have talked on a number of times in the past
> six months with ISOC.bg on these issues.
>
> Obviously the conversations have been fruitful. See more information
> here: http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKL2360195920080623
>
> And this is the official press-release from the ITC Agency:
>
> Bulgaria has requested the registration of a Cyrillic top level domain
> (TLD) from _ICANN_ <http://www.icann.org/>. The letter from the chairman
> of the Bulgarian State Agency for Information Technologies and
> Communicatoins (_SAITC_ <http://www.daits.government.bg/>) Plamen
> Vatchkov to the president of ICANN Paul Twomey was delivered today, June
> 23^rd , 2008, in Paris via the Bulgarian representative to the
> Governmental Advisory Committee of ICANN, and was distributed for
> information only in Geneva where the ITU is headquartered. Thus Bulgaria
> requested the fast track for implementation of its own Cyrillic IDNs.
>
> In the letter to the ICANN President, the SAITC chairman informs the
> authoritative international organization, dealing with assigned names
> and numbers, that Bulgaria has decided to register and maintain the
> country code .?? (bg in Cyrillic)
>
> Further in the letter, SAITC chairman informs that the discussion on
> using Cyrillic domain names was initiated by the President of Bulgaria
> Georgi Parvanov during the visit of the Russian President Putin and the
> then vice-prime minister, and now President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev
> during their visit in January 2008 in Sofia. The question was also
> discussed during meetings of Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev
> with the Russian counterparts, as well as during talks between foreign
> ministers Ivailo Kalfin and Sergei Lavrov. Last week, Russian President
> Medvedev announced in Moscow, that the issue of Cyrillic domain names is
> an important one, and on his political agenda.
>
> "We believe that the initiative, which we discussed with our Russian
> friends in the last months, is a clear fact about the importance which
> Bulgaria has in the world Internet. It is an example not only about the
> historical meaning of the Cyrillic alphabet in the world arena, but also
> about the fact that through Bulgaria it became an official alphabet of
> the European Union. By sending this letter to Dr. Twomey -- ICANN's
> president and my friend, SAITC expresses not only the wish, but the
> readiness to put the Cyrillic IDNs on the Internet map", says Plamen
> Vatchkov. "There's nothing more natural than the proposed domain to be
> the country code, which is already known and accepted in the country
> itself. Creating domains in scripts, different from the Latin, is the
> next big step in the development of the Internet, which will allow
> millions of people who don't use English to have easier access to the
> Global Net resources".
>
> SAITC is organizing a meeting later this year in Sofia, where all
> countries, using Cyrillic will be invited - Belarus, Bulgaria,
> Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Mongolia, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan,
> Uzbekistan and Ukraine. The meeting will be dedicated to discussion
> about IDNs.
>
> for more information:
> Press Center
> phone +359-2-9492368
> "Ekaterina Popova" <epopova@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:epopova@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>
> /Ms. Dessi Pefeva,
> Internet Society - Bulgaria/
>
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