Re: [alac] New gTLDs analysis -- IDN
I hope we may continue our discussion on this topic, though I cannot check emails every day in "atypical" situation. If IDN gTLDs genuinely affect the interests of those non-English speaking users, there is no reason to keep those users away from the decision make process. Shall we go down to the fundamental purpose of creating IDN TLDs? Is it purporting to serve those non-English speaking users, for current TLDs are inconvenient to them, or even impossible to be used by them? Or, is it simply to create a new market for those current *stakeholders*? If the mission of the "At Large" is to let those users who have no other channel to participate the ICANN process to get in and get heard, then the (interim) ALAC should, of course, speak for those inarticulate non-English users. No need to worry for those commercial companies, for they have numerious channels and connections to the ICANN. No matter for *design* of the evaluation criteria and processes and the *application* of these criteria, the opinion of the people who are going to use the IDNs should be fully respected. I agree with VB that the point is "how to practically ensure such participation in the process", such as letting "each character set 'mapped' to a sort of coordination forum made by the local communities so that, each time non-ASCII characters are involved, the related coordination forum may express its opinion on this. " The fact that "IDN ccTLDs could take some of the pressure from IDN *g*TLDs" cannot become the excuse for not allowing the users to participate in evaluation of IDN gTLDs. P.S. I attach a small part of the "Table for Chinese characters" to show why the LgTLD evaluation process shouldn't basically be applicable. Without the participation of the language community, do you think the table can be effectively used for "no harm" evalution? Hong Attachment:
CCMT.doc
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