BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF THE WORLD TODAY DOES NOT SPEAK OR WRITE ENGLISH.

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THIS IS MORE IN THE FORM OF A REVIEW OF THE IDN WORKING GROUP'S ACTIVITIES IN THE GAC AND HOW FROM THE TIME THAT THIS WORKING GROUP WAS INSTITUTED.
THE WORKING GROUP HAS BEEN PERFORMING TWO BASIC FUNCTIONS.
ONE OF THEM IS TO FAMILIARIZE THE MEMBERS OF THE GAC WITH THE TECHNICAL AND PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES THAT ARE INVOLVED.
AND THEN, OF COURSE, TAKE A POSITION AND ADVISE THE BOARD ON THE PUBLIC-POLICY MATTERS PERTAINING TO IDNS.
IN THE BEGINNING, THE ISSUES THAT MAINLY WERE ADDRESSED IN THE WORKING GROUP WERE ON THE TECHNICALITIES AND THE COMPLEXITY OF THE WHOLE ISSUE.
BUT GRADUALLY, AS ICANN ITSELF STARTED -- INSTITUTED THE PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE, AND THEN WE HAD THE TWO TESTS, TECHNICAL TESTS, THAT WERE ANNOUNCED.
AND THAT GOT A TURN IN THE SYSTEM.
AND THE GNSO HAS COME OUT WITH ITS 5TH DECEMBER PAPER.
AND THE CCNSO, BOTH OF WHICH WERE PRESENTED IN THE SESSION BEFORE US.
AND BEFORE -- I NEED NOT REPEAT, BUT I NEED TO ENDORSE THE ISSUES THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED BY BOTH THE SPEAKERS BRUCE TONKIN AND HIRO HOTTA AS LIVE ISSUES.
AND THE GAC ALSO FEELS THAT AT EVERY LEVEL, FROM THE TECHNICAL SIDE TO THE PUBLIC-POLICY SIDE, THERE ARE COMPLEXITIES.
THE COMPLEXITY OF THE LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD. THERE ARE SCRIPT VARIATIONS, GEOGRAPHICAL DIVERSITIES, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DIMENSIONS, AND OF COURSE WE HAVE PHONETIC AND VISUAL VARIATIONS.
SO THEREFORE, IT'S NOT -- IT'S PERMUTATION, COMBINATION OF SO MANY VARIATIONS THAT WE HAVE A CHALLENGE BEFORE US.
HOWEVER, WHAT WE FELT THAT THERE HAS TO BE SOME KIND OF A SIMPLIFICATION OF THE PROCESSES.
AND THE IDEA IS TO MAKE IT AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE. AND THEREFORE, WE HAVE -- I HAVE DESIGNED A SMALL NOTE BASED ON THE EXPERIENCES OF ALL THE SPEAKERS. AND WHAT WE FEEL IS THAT IN THE FIRST STEP, WE CAN TAKE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BASIC LANGUAGE TABLE, SO THE TASKS IN IT WOULD BE IDENTIFY THE COLLECTION OF CHARACTERS FOR A GIVEN LANGUAGE TO BE LAUNCHED. IDENTIFY THE POTENTIAL VARIANTS WITHIN THE LANGUAGE, LIST OF CHARACTERS. IDENTIFY POTENTIAL VARIANTS WITH OTHER UNICODE CHARACTERS. DETERMINE LIST OF VALID CHARACTERS FOR REGISTRATION.
THEN WE CAN START TO ADDRESS CERTAIN PUBLIC-POLICY ISSUES, EITHER WHICH EMANATE FROM IPR AND CONTEXTUAL CONSIDERATIONS.
SO THERE THE TASK WOULD BE DETERMINE ADDITIONAL LIST OF RESERVE NAMES IN THE LANGUAGE TO BE LAUNCHED. DETERMINE IF SUNRISE PERIOD IS NECESSARY, AND IF BROADER VARIANT RULES OR FURTHER IP ISSUES, WE HAVE TO MAKE THE RULES. DETERMINE ADDITIONAL CONTEXTUAL RULES, MAXIMUM/MINIMUM LENGTH, INVALID PREFIXES, SUFFIXES. DRP, THE DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCESSES.
ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS ARE THE PRICING AND THE LAUNCH PROCEDURES.
I WOULD END MY -- THIS RECOMMENDATION WITH A SMALL, MAYBE A PHILOSOPHICAL STATEMENT THAT THE WRIGHT BROTHERS PROBABLY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FLY THEIR AIRCRAFT IF THEY HAD WAITED FOR THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER AND ITS REGIME TO BE SET UP BEFORE THEY TOOK OFF.
SO THE ISSUE IS MANY TIMES TECHNOLOGY MOVES AHEAD WITH A LITTLE DISREGARD FOR THE REGIME THAT EXISTS. IT MAY NOT BE FULLY CONDUCIVE, BUT IF THE EQUIVALENT OF A GAC WERE THERE TO CONSTANTLY KEEP LOOKING AT ALL THE PUBLIC-POLICY ISSUES, THEN THE MOTOR CAR MANUFACTURER WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MANUFACTURER A CAR WHICH WOULD HAVE TRAVELED AT 300 KILOMETERS PER HOUR, BECAUSE EVERY COUNTRY WOULD HAVE TAKEN THE POSITION THAT OUR MAXIMUM SPEEDS ARE ABOUT 85 MILES, 110, 130, 140 KILOMETERS, OR 200.
SO THE ISSUE I AM TRYING TO BRING FORTH IS THAT IT IS TIME WE IDENTIFIED SOME BASIC PUBLIC-POLICY ISSUES AND REDUCED THE COMPLEXITIES TO A POINT WHERE WE CAN GO AHEAD WITH THE IDNS. BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF THE WORLD TODAY DOES NOT SPEAK OR WRITE ENGLISH.


ICANN | Workshop on IDN Real-Time Captioning | 25 June 2006

[mulligan]

Ouch! that hurt my brain ... all caps is very painful! (no really, why can't these stenographers or whatever they're called type in shorthand) Thats a joke BTW