Re: [atlarge-discuss] Oh no, not another name proposal... (ORVI)

[Eric Dierker <eric@hi-tek.com>]

Funny i always like Descartes'  ""cogito ergo sum"  "I think therefor I am"
but CES.org.de  may not be good.

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Departamento de Asuntos Legales wrote:

> My friends:
> Yes, yet another name proposal :D You'll see, I think all the names already
> proposed arent bad, in fact some of them are pretty cool, the only problem I
> find is that they are thinked "in english", and we are pretending to be a
> www.organization of users. Well, I think that's a possible, hard but possible
> aim: the "creation" of a multinlingual name through an acronym, that later
> have the different translations in the major amount of different languages
> possible. At least, for western languages, using the correct latin or greek
> words, we could cover major languagues like french, english, italian,
> spanish, german, french, portuguese, romanian and a few more. Also, due the
> usal costumes of ICANN-related-things, we could use a cool, meaningful and
> short acronym :) . This thought here have nothing to do with "political
> issues", this is becouse two major logical reasons (at least they are for me):
>
> a) I dont want to write a looong thing to call us every single time; and
> b) the "at large" is an english term very difficult thing to translate (at
> least) in spanish in few words.
>
> And if we use a "dual" acronym, for instance, from that very first page of
> the site, the user pick his language, and then the meaning of the acronym
> appears, due is different in each language, but the same acronym is used to
> many possible languages; at least for the ones I said, which are the most
> used globally, with the exeption of chinese, and thats becouse of the common
> origin (at least, of some of the words).
>
> I would like to suggest, that the main name *must* be a dot-org, just becouse
> we are supoused to use that one, acording to the mithical RFC1591. We could
> catch the other options and redirect them to that dot-org domain, in order to
> prevent any kind of "stuff". Ok, I know no one cares about this anymore
> (RFC1591), but this is what it seems right to me.
>
> So I thoght and I have this idea: let's call "ORVI". It means "Organization
> Vox Interneti / Internet", but also due the origin the word "organization",
> the "OR" could mean:  ORganizzazione (it); ORrganização (pt); ORganización
> (es); ORganisation (de, fr); and of course, ORganization (uk). Perhaps its
> not "shiny", but it's effective and with a plus, due a little "word game" of
> the acronym: "ORBI" means "WORLD" in latin. Ok, u r totally right: it's
> misspelled, but I think the word game works and fits exactly what we want to
> represent: the "orbi" voice of the Internet users. This name it's still
> unregistrered in all the gTLD with the exception of the dot-com. Another
> option (someone proposed when the "Vox Internet" appears, but I dont
> remember, so sorry pal!), the usage of the ccTLD dot-VI (www.or.vi), but I'm
> not very conviced in use a ccTLD, I think we must respect the RFC1591
> structure, and leave to each country chapter the option of register under
> their's ccTLD their domains if so.
>
> Ok, perhaps its not so nice this name, it's only a suggestion, but let's try
> to follow these concepts in order to "construct" a cool name: "words of latin
> origin and tech talk" (on-line, internet, those ones :) in order to construct
> a multilingual acronym. Just a thought, as valid as the others. What do u
> think about this? Best wishes and good luck, Gabriel.
>
> Ps. Lets try not to rush this thing, this is a MAJOR issue!!!
>
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