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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dusan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I tend to agree, though I’m still waiting for actual confirmation of what was asked and in what context.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">UA is NOT solely about non-Latin scripts and I find it incredibly tiresome when people focus on that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Giving ANYONE the idea that domains can only be in English is just plain stupid and WRONG.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Dusan Stojicevic via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, 13 September 2023 at 11:12<br>
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<b>Subject: </b>Re: [UA-discuss] question during G20 for Multilingual Internet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:36.0pt">Dear all,</p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt">This Ajay's "big news" makes me a little bit sad and a bit worried. If the question was quoted by Ajay how it was posted on that summit, we have many levels of understanding issues in UASG.<br>
1. question is framed in a manner that someone forbids using other languages in the domain names. With that info, served to the politicians, who are by design unaware of standards and technology, you created a picture that ICANN or at least some Internet body
force us to use English. We can argue that it was a valid statement 15 years ago, but now it is completely wrong.<br>
2. there is no 25 percent who speaks English, there is less than that. You can check here -
<a href="https://myclasstracks.com/how-many-people-speak-english/">https://myclasstracks.com/how-many-people-speak-english/</a>. Still, this creates false impression that some minority language is forced by ICANN or any Internet body to be used, because we
don't expect the politicians to know the history on Internet. Internet was created in the USA, on English language and Latin script, and existed many years before IDNs are introduced and that's why we have Latin script.<br>
3. Using "English language" in the question, instead of "Latin script" (which is used the most in the world -
<a href="https://www.worldstandards.eu/other/alphabets/">https://www.worldstandards.eu/other/alphabets/</a>) again is targeting political battle between East and West. Do we need to be in that battle, as UASG? Ironically, I presume that this question was asked
on English language... Using language instead of script is factually wrong from UASG point of view.
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<p style="margin-left:36.0pt">Together, those 3 wrong things in the question creates a dumb image to politicians that English language is forced by the West, through ICANN, which is just a political statement for the sake of West/East battle. And very hard
one now in today's geopolitical situation. I would argue that we DON'T need such political statements while we are tending to be apolitical in UASG.
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At least, this big news are leading us into wrong direction, and Anil's answer of 5 years of devoted work on this makes me more worried. This question is not something that I would like to be the message of UASG/ICANN and I would be extra careful in today's
fragile geopolitical world.<br>
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My two cents</p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt">Dusan </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">On 11.9.2023. 17:59, Michele Neylon - Blacknight via UA-discuss wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">You say the question was raised, but by whom and in what context?</span></p>
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