[UA-discuss] intervention from Indian delegates

Andre Schappo A.Schappo at lboro.ac.uk
Tue Mar 8 11:44:23 UTC 2016


Prompted by this email I have looked at the current state of play with India's 7 ccTLDs http://schappo.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/india-cctlds.html

I searched on the ccTLDs to see what results I get

Hindi ccTLD search - https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=site:.भारत&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Gujarati ccTLD search - https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=site:.ભારત&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

The other 5 ccTLDs return zero results

The Hindi ccTLDs results are promising

André Schappo

> On 7 Mar 2016, at 17:22, Edmon Chung <edmon at registry.asia> wrote:
> 
> ARVIND GUPTA:  THANK YOU,  MR. CHAIRMAN.  ON BEHALF OF MY DELEGATION, I WANT
> TO MAKE AN INTERVENTION, I WANT TO MAKE TWO POINTS.  EVERY SECOND 3 NEW
> INDIANS EXPERIENCE THE INTERNET FOR THE FIRST TIME AND MANY OF THEM ARE NOT
> FLUENT IN ENGLISH AND THE LANGUAGES THEY READ DO NOT USE ROMAN CHARACTERS.
> THIS IS NOT TRUE ONLY FOR INDIANS BUT FOR A VAST MAJORITY OF THE NEXT
> BILLION WHO WILL BE COMING ONLINE SOON.  FOR ALL THESE PEOPLE IT IS
> ESSENTIAL THAT THERE IS HIGH QUALITY LOCAL LANGUAGE CONTENT AVAILABLE AND
> THAT THE SERVICES WHICH WE ALL TAKE FOR GRANTED SUCH AS EMAIL WORK
> SEAMLESSLY.  THIS IS POSSIBLE ONLY BY MAKING SURE THAT IDNs ARE ROLLED OUT
> AND ARE SUPPORTED FULLY BY EVERYONE.  IN OTHER WORDS WHAT IS ESSENTIAL IS
> UNIVERSAL ACCEPTANCE WHICH IS AN AREA WHERE ICANN CAN PLAY AN IMPORTANT
> FACILITATING ROLE.
> 



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