[ICANN-EU] Fwd: Re: European ML

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

To all.
For you rinformation these are excepts of the mail I received from
Dr. Tan Tin Wee from MINC. I think that issues like the support of
nordic, german, greek, russian, french, spanish, gaelic aplhapbets
are of interest to the european culture, and thet we share with our
far east friends.

I would be interested in knowing what our 7 european candidates
are thinking about multilingual Domain Names and the slowliness
of IEFT and ICANN in technically (?) and politcally (?) implementing
them.
Jefsey Morfin


I remind you the minc-europe@egroups.com list is dedicated to
that kind of topcis. To subscribe just send a mail to
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>M. Morfin,
>
>I am pleased to hear of your keen interest in MINC activities.
>As you can tell from the website http://www.minc.org/
>we have been working in the area of internationalised Domain names
>since 1998.
>
>Since NSI has announced its multilingual.com testbed to be launched
>in Oct 2000, and Japan japanese.jp and Korea korean.kr in January 2001,
>MINC has been playing an active role in coordinating the deployment,
>discussing the registration policy issues and the interoperability
>testing.
>
>For European languages, you may have heard of the .nu effort
>in Swedish which has met with resistance.
>
>I am pleased to hear that interest in European language
>domain names is increasing.
>
>Technical: MINC is promoting involvement in the IETF IDN working group.
>            I have pioneered a proof of concept since March 1998.
>            Many groups have since developed the technology further
>            including the one you made enquiries about i-DNS.net
>            which supports all European languages by the way.
>            (I was one of the original founders, but my role has changed
>             since I remained in the University, and am focussing on
>             MINC in the form of international affairs.)
>
>Promotion and Coordination:
>     MINC is looking for more European representation
>     to promote a more rapid deployment of multilingual domain names.
>     This is because we firmly believe that the speed of Internetisation
>     of any non-English speaking society is now limited by the language 
> barrier
>     of domain names. Imagine if Internet was invented in Korea, and every
>     one in New York had to memorise yahoo.com in Korean alphabet in order
>     to reach Yahoo. or they have to get their customers to learn Korean
>     before they can dot.com their business!
>     The technology is available today. The only limitation is the speed
>     or lack of speed with which ICANN is moving. It is increasing the
>     digital divide and as an Asian, we are not about to stand for this
>     kind of nonsense in preventing our peoples from catching up with the
>     West by forcing our students in school to learn English first (as good
>     as that might be, and we certainly do advocate learning English) before
>     they can access the Internet to send email content in their own language
>     but to an English email address.
...
>Je reste à votre disposition pour tout renseignement complémentaire.
>Veuillez agréer, monsieur, mes salutations distinguées.
>
>Tin Wee