[soac-newgtldapsup-wg] Fwd: [AfTLD-Discuss] AfTLD takes on .Africa ( EN / FR )

[Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Colleagues,

Note the desire for several labels, two or more in the Latin script, 
and one in Arabic script.
In the "bundle" model, this is an instance of a "three application 
bundle".
In the "wide character" model, this is a single application for which 
two scripts and three strings are the unitary resource sufficient to 
cause no harm to the communities or regions to be served by an 
application.
I use "wide character" for want of a better term, in twenty years ago 
when I was making Unix operating systems capable of being localized to 
languages other than English (coded character sets other than ASCII), 
the fundamental change was from a 8bit character model to a wide 
character model, and the really hard bits were things like the size of 
a tab or the direction of backspace, in the bottom half of the tty 
driver, when the character set was other than ASCII and the 
directionality of character strings was bi-directional. We can't 
"internationalize ICANN" until we get past a 
translated-from-the-monolingual model to plurality.
I note in passing that the mailing list is not as effective a means of 
collaboration as it could be, with almost all substantive interaction 
limited to call time, and call participants.
Eric

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [AfTLD-Discuss] AfTLD takes on .Africa ( EN / FR )
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:05:21 -0000 (GMT)
From: Eric Akumiah <eric@xxxxxxxxx>
To: aftld-discuss@xxxxxxxxx, aftld-ga@xxxxxxxxx, aftld-members@xxxxxxxxx

English

Wednesday, 8 March 2011

Africa Top Level Domains (AfTLD) organisation has today announced its
decision to seek a mandate from the African Union (AU) Commission and to
apply to ICANN to manage the .africa registry. AfTLD has listened
attentively to many calls in Africa asking AfTLD to play a leading role in
developing, managing and running the .africa top level domain for the
region. AfTLD has responded by first undertaking a detailed assessment of
the new gTLD landscape and making a commitment to work with the AU
Commission, ICANN and others to secure a mandate to run .africa.

For the full story please go to
http://www.aftld.org/html/english/news_dotafrica.html


Français

Mercredi 8 mars 2011

L'organisation de domaines de niveau supérieur de l'Afrique (AfTLD) a
aujourd'hui annoncé sa décision pour chercher un mandat de la Commission
africaine des syndicats (AU) et pour s'appliquer à ICANN pour contrôler
l'enregistrement de .africa. AfTLD a écouté attentivement beaucoup
d'appels en Afrique demandant à AfTLD pour jouer un rôle principal en
développant, en contrôlant et en courant le domaine de niveau supérieur de
.africa pour la région. AfTLD a répondu par la première entreprise une
évaluation détaillée du nouveau paysage et de faire fonctionner de gTLD un
engagement avec une Commission, de l'ICANN et les autres pour fixer un
mandat pour courir .africa.


Veuillez aller à

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http://www.aftld.org/&lp=en_fr&btnTrUrl=Translate

pour la nouvelle détaillée

Eric




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