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

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 02:04:01PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> 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)

An excellent point, but a bit overstated, I think.  Having, for example,
Spanish versions of documents available would greatly facilitate
discussion among native spanish speakers, even if the comments coming
back did need to be in english.  Moreover, don't forget that there are
board members who are multilingual, and will perfectly understand 
comments written spanish. 

That is, translations benefit a community, not just isolated 
individuals who may want to comment.


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Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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