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Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:14:49 +0000

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By: Please Fast Track Us, Too! - IP Watch - IDN Forums - Internationalised Domain Names

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:26:52 +0000

[...] Please Fast Track Us, Too! – IP Watch Yet despite the applause, there has also has been criticism to the fast-track privilege for the IDN ccTLDs. Representatives from registrars and companies in non-Latin-script countries said, they hoped for a quick opening up for privately ventured, generic TLDs. Huiming Yu from the China Organization on Name Administration Standard (CONAC) said there is a strong desire from Chinese internet users for IDN gTLDs. “In my opinion, the opening date for application of IDN gTLDs should be made clear as soon as possible,” he said. “We need our fast track process for that, too.” Allowing IDN ccTLD to run first was said to be even as a competitive advantage and threat to the private ventures. A second group not happy with the headstart of their country code colleagues seem to be some of the large existing registries. Steve Del Bianco of NetChoice said that users could be expected to attempt “to go to YouTube.com in Arabic, in Chinese, or Japanese. And it won’t be there. Neither will Google.com or eBay.com or Facebook.com. Because we haven’t provided a plan for that.” The question of whether .com in its Chinese version will go automatically to VeriSign (the US firm which holds exclusive rights to .com) might result in more debates, though, as China already had at least tested the label for “company” (gongsi) in Chinese over the years. And the fact that the ccTLD operators can market their names first resulted in a competitive advantage for them, while everybody else had to wait. ICANN expert Milton Mueller drew a critical conclusion from the meeting summarising: “Now the national monopoly country code registries get to enter the IDN space before anyone else because ICANN wants their political support. In the meantime, hundreds if not thousands of legitimate potential innovators are deferred endlessly, their investors’ money burned, their ideas and dreams stranded.” http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/…level-domains/ [...]

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Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:47:26 +0000

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By: A Real World-Wide Web of Possibilities « Left Flank

A Real World-Wide Web of Possibilities « Left Flank — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:08:41 +0000

[...] I’m surprised by the negativity expressed by the likes of Nik Trapani or Susan Moeller. It’s not a loss for English or “standards”. It’s a victory for decentralization, of Gutenberg-sized possibilities, of ending bigotry – and for foreign language teachers and services. But, if reactionaries must shuffle their feet glumly, they can cheer bureaucratic inertia and the scourge of intellectual piracy. [...]