Re: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] My comments on the draft final report

[Andrew Mack <amack@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric,

Thanks for these excellent examples.  This was the hope when we started looking 
at the idea of bundling as a kind of support -- to promote exactly the kinds of 
scripts that are likely to be left out if the choice for them is full price or 
nothing.

Your mention of India is spot on.  For someone wishing to reach as much of 
India 
as possible, a bulk price/bundling incentive that would make it economically 
more viable build out in all of the scripts of the country seems to me to be a 
benefit for the language communities, a benefit for the economy of India and a 
benefit for the group/company/organization trying to reach the country.  For a 
government hoping to promote development in all parts of a country -- including 
those with minority languages/scripts -- I think this is good news as well, 
since the last thing they want is to see their internal digital divides 
increase.

Not sure how many groups would find the "bulk pricing" a true incentive, but 
based on the comments in Brussels it does seem worth considering.  


Andrew


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From: Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: carlos aguirre <carlosaguirre62@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: tijani.benjemaa@xxxxxxxx; soac-newgtldapsup-wg@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, August 19, 2010 12:52:47 PM
Subject: Re: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] My comments on the draft final report


Carlos,

This just addresses scripts and strings, to which you commented "I think this 
need to be better explained , because is a little complicated to understand. at 
least for me."


Assume an application for "africa", and ignore the GAC regional name issue.

Assume the application is "qualified".

The applicant offers the claim that at least one string in each of two scripts, 
Latin and Arabic, is necessary.

Which outcome is preferable?

    (a) the Arabic script string is delegated to registry operator AS-RegOp, 
and 
the Latin script string is delegated to a distinct registry operator LS-RegOp, 
or
    (b) both Arabic script string and the Latin script string are delegated to 
a 
single registry operator AS+LS-RegOp.


Assume an application for "reproductive rights" by an organization domiciled in 
India.

Assume the application is "qualified".

There are 11 scripts used by government in India, and 22 languages, with some 
scripts and some languages used in neighboring states.

What is the cost to the applicant to deliver registry services?

If there is a substantial cost, then applicants will have to choose what 
scripts, and languages, and the associated users, to abandon, and if their 
decisions are made by rational economic analysis, will eliminate lesser taught 
and minority languages from their service profile.

I hope these two examples clarify why linguistic diversity is an element of 
need.

Eric