Re: [wg-c] Working Group C agenda

[tinwee@pobox.org.sg]

Multilingualism as a basic principle
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The principles should spare a thought for folks who are non-native
speakers of English, or at least, not familiar with the English 
alphabet. After all, is the Internet the global info infrastructure or 
is it not?  Shouldn't there be a principle that includes 
multilingualism? At least, until the IETF IDN working group comes up with
the guidelines for internationalising the domain name system, the
Sheppard/Kleinman principles should lay down the basis for a level playing field
in making basic provisions for ASCII transliterated translations
in other languages ... at least until the multilingual script issue
is sorted out.

rgds

Tin Wee


"Winer, Jonathan" wrote:
> 
> At 11:14 30-03-2000 -0500, Jonathan Weinberg wrote:
> >         [1] Is it useful, as a general matter, for us to agree on some
> meaningful set of principles to guide the relevant ICANN body or process in
> selecting new TLDs or TLD registry/pairs?  It seems to me that, in the
> context of the last consensus call, most folks indicated that their answer
> was YES.
> 
>         To WGC: I vote yes.
> 
> Re the Sheppard/Kleinman principles,
> 
>         I endorse them, they are better than anything else anyone has
> offered to incorporate the various equities.
> 
> 
>         Regards, JMW
> 
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