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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Thank you for yesterday's meeting. I would like to continue it on the list, as time did not permit us to get to the end of the draft initial document.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Justine - I went through the points you asked me to raise, but may to some extent have garbled them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Anyway, starting where I left off:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">p.11 bullet 1: "transparent, accessible" - the question here is to whom. If the recommendations in the straw man are implemented in fact there is only definitely English
in one field and so perhaps the answer is "those familiar with the Latin script".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">bullet 2: "lose its clarity" - again, clarity to whom. (Clarity in the sense of quality of information is not in field for T&T, although obviously it is to be hoped
that the next generation gTLD directory service will have better data quality.) Whatever script/languages addresses are in, it would be useful to have confirmation that they work in a field.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">bullet 3: This one requires considerable thought. Is it actually an argument for mandatory transformation?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">As I have written before now, there would be immediate pressure for the replacement of a next generation gTLD directory service without IRD with a service with the
functionality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">bullet 4: Would it not be better to use data similar to those at the top of p.13? Is original script not more likely to facilitate contact?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Speaking of the data on p.13 and the useful note just before them - what are our opinions on them? How functional would such a format be?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">p.12 bullets 2 and 3: Objectively it does make sense to use the Latin script if a common script is to be used. It has a low number of letters (admittedly not as low
as Greek) and is used by several other large (number of users) and major world languages (by spread). The use of English and to a lesser extent French and Spanish as languages of business means that the Latin script is taught in many parts of the world not
using English or the Latin script.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">bullet 3 again: The cost of consistent, large scale transformation is likely to be large even if carried out centrally, for example at a country level. If transformation
is carried out by many organizations, consistency will be an issue. (My first job was as a Japanese cataloguer at the British Library - I'm very familiar with such consistency issues. Different people will Romanize a long Japanese o as o, ō, ô , oo, ou or
even oh.) Perhaps guidelines per language would improve consistency. These issues call into question the practicality and feasibility of mandatory transformation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">I won't repeat comments above which also apply to the recommendations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">p.14 #1 bullet 4: In the real world registries and registrars will pass down transformation costs to registrants, increasing the cost of domain names in the non-Latin
script world. To what extent in each country would governmental organizations be prepared to subsidize registries and registrars, so that the costs would not be handed down?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">#2 bullet 3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">The idea here should be in line with the EWG's recommendations. Perhaps the best we can do is to use the most recent wording.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">As usual, I welcome your ideas on any of the above, on things missed out and on things we discussed yesterday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Chris.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Research Associate in Linguistic Computing, Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT Tel +44 20 7679 1599 (int 31599)
<a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/chrisdillon">www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/chrisdillon</a>
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