[wg-review] RE: [cctld-discuss] Comments on review of DNSO by Mr Park

["Peter de Blanc" <pdeblanc@usvi.net>]

the translation issue is very important.

With a time constraint of a few weeks, and no mechanism for translation, the
process IS NOT fair and representative, and WILL NOT stand up to any
scrutiny by the global internet community.

In ccTLD constituency, we translate position papers, etc. into several
languages.

we have obtained volunteer (no cost) translations.

I agree fully with Pilar!

Peter de Blanc

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-cctld-discuss@wwtld.org
[mailto:owner-cctld-discuss@wwtld.org]On Behalf Of Pilar Luque
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 6:55 AM
To: yjpark@myepark.com; wg-review@dnso.org; cctld-discuss@wwtld.org
Subject: [cctld-discuss] Comments on review of DNSO by Mr Park
Importance: High


Dear all,

After reading this lengthy and interesting report I would like to
comment the following points.  I will carry on stressing the same point
of view by e-mail and physically at the ICANN meetings till my voice is
heard and something will be done about it.
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1.
- Does the existing structure work to generate consensus recommendations
on
domain name matters?

    Not very well. However, the sample is small.
____________________________________________________________________________
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That is my point.  The sample will carry on being  small if every single
document is just published in English and never translated at least into
Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish, German and French.



2.

Different voices in the ICANN orbit sometimes argue that there are
    vast unrepresented blocks of Internet users whose rights are being
    abused, but there is no actual evidence that this is the case, and
    lots of evidence to the contrary
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I could not disagree more.  The evidence is that participation is very
low if we take into account the vast majority of Internet stakeholders
in the world.  In the ccTLD Constituency, to cite the example I know
best, only 40 ccTLD assist to such meetings out of 240 ccTLD worldwide.



3.
- How can the level of participation by GA members in the GA be
improved?
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 I insist that translating basic documents is very importnat in order to
improve such participation.


4.
2. Communicate to the NC the terrible imbalance built in to the
constituency
structure, with business lobbying groups given 4 of the 7
constituencies,
and
non-commercial, educational, civil rights and other interests stuffed
together
into a single constituency.
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I could not agree more.  Thst is the reason why the ccTLD constituency
is so porly represented in the ICANN Board.  We should step out of the
DNSO.




5.
Review WG is composed of people from many from North America, Europe and
a
few from Asia, Latin America and Africa. As we experineced in previous
WG A,
B, C discussion, most active participants are from US, Europe, New
Zealand
and Australia who have no problems with reading 57 "English" email
messages
a
day and possibly respond to some of them in "English".
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Believe me it is not that easy to read, understand and answer messages
not written in your mother tongue.  Who assured you, we non-English
mother tongue speakers do not have problems to read and "possibly" (well
observed) respond to "some" (well observed) in "English" (somehow
patronising if in brackets)


I would encourage more members of the ccTLD Constituency to support the
claim of translating documents so that the DNSO and the ICANN process is
more fair to all the Internet stakeholders.


Excuse my poor English!

Pilar LUQUE (Es-NIC)
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ccTLD Constituency of the DNSO
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