[ga] Proposition to take advantage from Members' cultures

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

Gentlemen,
I want to make a proposition based upon Joana's perfect English and 
Roberto's concerns for local outreach through non MdR based (yet cheaper) 
meetings.

I propose - conforming with international WTC agreements - that the GA 
maintains a ML at least in the language of each of the countries where a 
meeting was held or is expected. This will permit the people who met/will 
meet in such meetings to continue relating and develop their local ICANN 
oriented community. Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Arabic, etc... ML 
should therefore be implemented by Secretariat. So the genius of every 
culture may be taken advantage from by the ICANN..

Obviously votes will continue on the GA. But motions should be translated 
in every ML language under the common responsibility of the motioneer and 
of the language ML Chair. I am sure we have enough bilingual experts able 
to fairly, promptly and exactly translate such texts for free. There is 
therefore no additional cost incurred.

As indicated earlier france@large is the incorporated association we set-up 
to foster initiatives in that area. The icann-fra ML already exists on a 
commercial system. I propose its transfer under the DNSO system and other 
MLs to be implemented in parallel. The GA counts more than 1000 Members. 
Voting Members are in the 200 range for the USA, 50 for France, 40 for 
Germany, ... These figures become coherent with such a proposition and will 
help developing and stabilizing the GA, the DNSO and the ICANN.

As an example, issues like Whois are today of enough international 
importance to be addressed too by people of different cultures and 
countries where the currently debated propositions are illegal. I certainly 
respect the professional approach of ATT and VeriSign lobbyists but if 
their influence is not balanced by people from different cultures, legal 
understanding and network vision the result will be so unbalanced that it 
will result in Governmental negative actions, detrimental to everyone, 
starting with ATT and VeriSign.

Another example is the ".name" TLD. This English only proposition is an 
obvious challenge to the rest of the cultures and a deliberate incitation 
to the creation of open Internet TLDs for other languages.

There are two Aborigine TLDs on the open Internet. I am proud of them. As 
they said about the Melbourne meeting "the lords of the ancient domains 
welcome the masters of the new domains". This is the Internet I am proud 
of. I am sad that their TLD Managers were not acknowledged.

Jefsey


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