Re: [ga] US not only country that restricts access to tlds

[Hugh Dierker <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx>]

Boy this sure looks like proper excercise of a sovereign authority. The internet is really just a small tiny bit of this. UK has a dandy democracy and apparently the people within that democracy desire this restriction on speech. (don't say anything but i heard someone say that "England has the raunchiest tabloids and something should be done about it" -- it was one Brit tourist to a Londaner)
   
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kidsearch <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  Thought you all might find this interesting.

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=15919


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Williams" 
To: "Danny Younger" 
Cc: "Vint Cerf" ; 
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 5:14 AM
Subject: Re: [ga] RE: IDNs & the GNSO New TLD PDP


> Danny and all former DNSO GA members or other interested
> stakeholders/users,
> 
> The answer to Danny's questioin is ICANN.
> 
> Danny Younger wrote:
> 
> > Vint,
> >
> > on the topic of upper bounds for IDN TLDs, if "for the
> > present the suggested number is one" then I would
> > think that selection criteria becomes rather important
> > -- what type of IDN gets selected (and who makes that
> > selection, the registry operator or ICANN)?.
> >
> > I recall the Discussion Paper on Non-ASCII Top-Level
> > Domain Policy Issues that identified categories of
> > potential TLD strings based on the semantic meaning of
> > the string itself:
> >
> > 1. Semantic association with Geographic Units
> > 2. Semantic association with Languages
> > 3. Semantic association with Cultural Groups or
> > Ethnicities
> > 4. Semantic association with Existing Sponsored TLDs
> > 5. Semantic association with Existing Unsponsored TLDs
> >
> > 6. Everything else.
> >
> > http://www.icann.org/committees/idn/non-ascii-tld-paper.htm
> >
> > Do you recall whether this earlier IDN Committee made
> > any specific recommendations as to the best way
> > forward? Sorry, I couldn't find their follow-up work.
> >
> > --- Vint Cerf wrote:
> >
> > > Danny,
> > >
> > > I think the IDN matter splits into several parts.
> > > For gTLDs, IDNs are
> > > potentially much harder to solve. There might be
> > > more than one French
> > > restriction table developed by France, Senegal,
> > > Canada where potentially
> > > different dialects of French are spoken. To take
> > > Canada for example, it
> > > could conceivably have a single TLD (.CA) and have a
> > > restriction table for
> > > French (if one is needed) as it is written in Canada
> > > for registrations in
> > > .CA. The restriction table might differ from the one
> > > developed by France or
> > > Senegal. A gTLD, such as .info, might have to choose
> > > among several possible
> > > tables or develop its own for registrations in
> > > French.
> > >
> > > For ccTLDs, then, it would appear valuable for all
> > > those ccTLDs who wish to
> > > accept registrations in a given script and language,
> > > to work together as the
> > > Chines, Japanese and Koreans have. They developed a
> > > common CJK plan.
> > >
> > > I did not intend in my earlier remarks to suggest
> > > that the ccTLD operators
> > > has to comply with the ICANN contract for gLTDs. I
> > > only meant that the new
> > > gTLD process should include provision for non-Roman
> > > scripts (ie IDNs). I
> > > agree with you that the ccNSO should take up the
> > > question of IDNs for
> > > themselves. I also think that it is important to
> > > place an upper bound on the
> > > allowed number of additional TLDs using non-Roman
> > > scripts. For the present
> > > the suggested number is one.
> > >
> > > This won't quite satisfy all needs since some
> > > countries have more than one
> > > official language and many may want registrations in
> > > other unofficial
> > > languages that are widely in use. In the US, where
> > > English is the official
> > > language, there is a considerable spanish speaking
> > > population, for example.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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