Re: [ccnso-idncctld] Edits to Principle E

[Cary Karp <ck@nic.museum>]

Quoting Manal:

> If both committees (technical and linguistic) are not sufficient to
> address and maintain security and stability requirements then we must
> think of a third commitee to do so ..

Can we realistically expect a committee of linguistic experts also to be
conversant with the security and stability issues that attach to the
DNS?  Since the DNS does not convey any information whatsoever about
language identity, it seems unlikely that linguists spend much time
considering the intersection of their discipline with the field of
concern of the SSAC.

I'm also puzzled by the expectation that five experts can be adequately
enough familiar with all of the languages that may figure in the
impending exercise to do any real good, without significant adjunct
expertise. There is not even a remote relationship between ICANN's
geopolitical division of the world into five regions and the way human
languages aggregate into families. And even if there were, the degree
of heterogeneity that each of the five linguists will need to address
lies well beyond what an individual expert can reasonably be expected
to manage.

/Cary