[UA-discuss] Document Review: UASG011 Frequently Asked Questions

[Asmus Freytag]

That statistic appears to be a simple estimate of the number of speakers 
for a given language times the % of internet penetration in a given 
population (summed over all distinct populations speaking the same 
language).

For languages spoken mostly in reasonably developed countries this 
approaches the population figures.

But it is a reasonable estimate for the purpose: except for the effect 
of trade languages and second languages, 100% penetration is something 
of a cap, so that the long-term (or not so long-term) development will 
see the internet use of languages match other use of languages.

As of the most recent statistics (see wikipedia for sources), the 
declared or detected content language of about half of all pages was 
still English. Or, in other words, only half. One would expect that to 
gravitate to the same distribution as observed for other media, such as 
print publications: not all languages will have perfectly similar rates 
of content production, but the current large fraction of English content 
is bound to shrink.

In this context, it is notable that the UTF-8 inflection point is long 
behind us: it was a few years ago that 50% of all pages counted were 
detected as UTF-8. By now that encoding dominates. For UASG that means 
that the fraction of pages that could not accommodate a URL with an IDN 
(or could not accommodate an arbitrary IDN) has shrunk to insignificant 
proportions already and that the bottlenecks are elsewhere.

A./

On 2/25/2019 11:20 PM, Dr. Ajaay Data wrote:
> Hello Mark
>
> Hope this will give you some information..
>
> According to internetworldstats, total internet users (by language) 
> for English is 25.4% https://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm,
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ajay
>
> On February 26, 2019 9:40:56 AM GMT+05:30, "Mark W. Datysgeld" 
> <mark at governanceprimer.com> wrote:
>
>     Don,
>
>     a question that I literally get asked every engagement I attend concerns what is the breakdown of script usage on the Web. People want to understand how much dissemination there is of different languages around the world, and this helps them better understand the actual extent of the diversity, which is usually not clear at all in their heads. While this is not strictly DNS-related, it certainly is something that helps getting people on board with the idea that the worlds is vast and diverse to the extreme, which make projects such as UA necessary.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 23:59:16 +0000
>     Don Hollander <don.hollander at icann.org> wrote:
>
>         We have this FAQ published at
>         https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/UASG011-160823-en-faq-digital.pdf
>         I'd very much welcome comments from the community about this -
>         whether you think it's fine as it is or whether things have
>         progressed since we last updated this in 2016 or whether there
>         are fresh questions that should be included. If you need a
>         deadline, let's aim for the 5th of March. Don Don Hollander
>         Secretary General - UASG Skype: Don_Hollander 
>
>
>
>     --
>     Mark W. Datysgeld from Governance Primer [www.markwd.website]
>     Representing businesses in IG together with AR-TARC and ABES
>
>
> -- 
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