Re: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] writing exercise.
All,On the proposed elimination of all Sub-Saharan African (non-Arabic Script using), almost all Maritime South East Asian (Jawi excluded as it uses Arabic Script), some West Asian (all Turkic languages) and all Western Hemisphere language communities from the benefit of being able, under option (a) (Andrew/Richard proposal) obtaining access to a per-application discount structure, and under option (b) (Eric proposal) obtaining bundled strings, I have a comment. First, please take a look at the attached maps. The limitation to IDN means that the benefit of the program is not limited to developing countries, but only those using Arabic, Indic, Han (Chinese) and Lao and Khmer Scripts. Second, please examine your own thoughts on why and what the Board meant when it approved "... inclusive, along the lines of the organization's strategic objectives". Should "inclusive" mean excluding Sub-Saharan African, almost all Maritime South East Asian, some West Asian and all Western Hemisphere language communities because these communities have survived the imposition of Latin Script by encoding non-Latin language in Latin Script? If the organization's strategic objectives, in particular, the addition of non-Latin Script IDNs to the IANA root are the rational for such an interpretation of "inclusive", how does this rational take into account the prior and continuous strategic objective of adding Latin Script strings to the IANA root? The example of a needs-qualified pan-African applicant, needing an Arabic, English, and French label to deliver pan-African registry services for some purpose, and a needs-qualified pan-South-Asian applicant, needing many more lables, all in Indic Scripts, should not yield different results because Africa was more devastatingly colonized than India by Europeans. Similarly, a needs-qualified pan-South-American applicant, needing Quechua, Aymara, and Guarani in addition to Spanish and Portuguese, all encoded in Latin Script, should not obtain a different result from the pan-South-Asian applicant, needing no strings, or at most one string of many, encoded in Latin Script. non-nit: @153 the limitation to IDNs overlooks all language communities which have accommodated to the imposition of Latin Script, and use Latin Script to encode non-Latin languages.yes it does. i thought he group was pretty specific on intending this benefit for increasing IDN in the DNS. I differ with the offered sense of the Working Group's intent (above), and if the working group has reached consensus that Sub-Saharan African, Maritime South East Asian, some West Asian and all Western Hemisphere language communities are excluded from needs-qualified language diversity benefits which are extended only to Arabic Script, Indic Script, East Asian Scripts and South Asian Scripts, that I respectfully dissent and will offer a minority of one report. Thank you all for your patience in reading this. Eric Attachment:
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