RE: [ga] 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Reverses Barcelona.com Deci sion

["J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@club-internet.fr>]

At 16:52 03/06/03, Rodrigo Orenday Serrato wrote:
>(iii) if the website has a version in the official language of said country

This is a VERY interesting statement I would love you to document because 
it is a direct violation of the anti-racist law (in France may lead you to 
jail). This is of real importance in the IDN area because a site selling to 
local people is legitimately entitled a local IDN and each time this might 
be confirmed by a court decision it will mean that the local ccTLD will 
have either to support the RFC 3066 368 languages, or ICANN to open a 
second local ccTLD willing to support them, or a tremendous advertizing for 
scSLDs supporting them.

You see, there are three actors in this. Engineers (IETF), Operators 
(Registries, ISP), Users (@large, business, Govs). In trying to keep ICANN 
an engineer/operators getho they miss a lot of inputs that will only 
resolve either in courts, or more probably in real world technical 
circumvention through a user centered network usage archtecture by-passing 
the bluffed ICANN imposed limitations.
jfc




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