RE: [wg-review] Re(2): [cctld-discuss] Comments on review of DNSOby Mr Park

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

So how's this different from comments@iana.org, which, as near as anyone
could tell, was a blackhole (similar to comments@icann.org).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Elz [mailto:kre@munnari.OZ.AU]
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 11:04 PM
> To: cctld-discuss@wwtld.org; wg-review@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [wg-review] Re(2): [cctld-discuss] Comments on review of
> DNSOby Mr Park 
> 
> 
> What has been missed here, is that the translation of ICANN
> documents into other languages isn't the issue, or the problem.
> And it isn't because "everyone understands English" whether that
> is true or not for the "everyone" who actually matter.
> 
> The problem is that there's no point at all making documents
> available for people to read and comment on, unless you're
> willing to listen to the comments you receive.   And I am not
> implying here that ICANN won't listen (also, regardless of
> how true that might be).   What I mean is that if you give
> people documents in the local language to comment on, the
> comments will all come back in the same language - the translation
> problem that exists is translating the comments back to a
> form that can be understood by those making the decision
> (at the very least, into English).
> 
> If you aren't willing to commit to doing that (for all the
> comments, you don't get to pick and choose) then there's no
> point making the original documents available in other
> languages (unless your aim is just to make some kind of
> political statement) - those who can comment in English can
> almost certainly read English well enough to read the documents
> (writing it is much harder than reading).
> 
> And giving people documents to comment on, and then telling them
> that their comments must be ignored, as none of the decision
> makers can understand them is worse than useless.
> 
> kre
> 
> 
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